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collecting of a number of arguments, each of which by itself has only 

 a rather modest value as proof, but all of which, when taken together, 

 by their number and unanimity, carry conviction to the mind. 



Our inquiry into the question of the genuineness of the skull 

 now in Swedenborg'« coffin has produced various concordant affirmative 

 reasons, but no just causes for doubt. Considering that it would have 

 been a juncture of accidents of the most extraordhiary kind if S^^'E- 

 denborg's skull, at an assumed exchange, should have been replaced 

 by another skull, which could satisfy all the different demands, which, 

 on scientific grounds, we are authorized in making, both with regard 

 to such a skull's general characters and its fitting to the lower jaw- 

 bone, and with regard to its agreement with the portraits, I think there 

 is good reason at hand to sum up the results of our investigation in 

 the following statement: 



The skull which nuw lies in Kmanuel Swedenborg's 

 coffin may, with the greatest degree of probability, 

 be regarded as genuine. 



