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REVIEW. 
Quid sit pulchrura, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non. — Hon. 
The Economy of the Antmal Kingdom, considered anatomi- 
cally , physically , and philosophically. By EMANUEL SWE- 
DENBORG, late Member in the House of Nobles in the Royal 
Diet of Sweden; Assessor of the Royal Metallic College of 
Sweden, &c. &c. Translated from the Latin by the Rev. 
Augustus Clissold, M.A. Vols. I & II. 8vo, pp. 574 and 
426. London : Newbery, King-street, Holborn, 1846. 
“ In the present volumes we introduce the English reader to the 
first of those great works in which the principles derived from 
anatomical and general experience are applied by Swedenborg to 
elicit the uses of the human body. The works of Swedenborg 
divide themselves into two classes, viz. a scientific class and a 
theological; and the scientific works — with which we are now 
engaged — are again divisible into practical and theoretical. What- 
ever may be the merits of the practical portion, it is not to come 
before us at present.” 
“ The compound relation of the two fields of science and phi- 
losophy is a remarkable feature in these works ; and the more so, 
as Swedenborg is the only writer in whose hands the matter of 
the sciences, and the way of induction, legitimately engender phi- 
losophical ideas. Other writers have proposed the same result, 
but he alone has attained it.” — “For he has substantially con- 
nected the organic sciences with philosophy and morality : so that 
body and soul are no longer two, but one in their harmonies.” — 
“We learn in the writings of Swedenborg, that doctrines cannot 
permanently elevate knowledge, unless they work with expe- 
rience, are handled by genius, and are used with good intentions. 
For they tend in no degree to produce equality between human 
minds, but rather to manifest, in their operation, delicacies of in- 
tellectual distinction between different men, and finer points of 
moral dissimilarity.” — “ A KNOWLEDGE OF THE HUMAN SOUL IS 
THE AUTHOR’S AIM IN THE PRESENT VOLUMES.” — “ Whether 
Swedenborg was conscious from an early period of this direction 
of his labours is hard to determine ; but it is certain that he rose 
from one study to another, in regular order, without proposing an 
ultimate end, until he proclaimed his resolution to investigate the 
soul. His theory of the mathematics and dynamics of chemistry 
