"We are, indeed, free to admit that Swedenborg's tools have been 

 handled and improved since his own time. The law of series, to 

 which he attributed so much, has been set in a new light, and made 

 into a machine of tenfold power, by Charles Fourier; and analogy 

 has been only too prolific in the hands of the German Oken. The 

 latter, we may remark, is all analogy, with no roots. The day of 

 railroads has been preceded by railroads in thought, with all the 

 excesses and expenses of their material types, and these mental iron- 

 ways are the analogies between different provinces of nature, where- 

 by sciences, incommunicable hitherto as Japan or China, are now 

 running into each other for mere lust of travel." 



WILKINSON on FOURIER, OKEN, and SWEDENBORG. 



"Control your language or your language will control you." 



WASHINGTON MCCARTNEY on ROBERT SMITH. 



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