Excerpt from Swedenborg and Modern Idealism: A Retrospect of Philosophy From Kant to the Present Time
I Use the word Idealism in its broadest sense, meaning thereby the opposite of Materialism; and my purpose in this and the following essays is to point out a trend in philosophic thought, from Descartes and Leibnitz down to our own time, toward the acceptance by the human reason, in its freest exercise, of those principles regarding the reality of spirit and the economy of the spiritual universe which Swedenborg announced in his Arcana of the Holy Scriptures and his treatises on the Angelic Wisdom, and which on their physical side he also anticipated in his Principia Rerum Naturalium, his works De Regno Animali, including the posthumous publications, De Cerebro and De Anima. While a direct influence of Swedenborg upon the sources of modern philosophy, notably on Kant in Germany, on Carlyle and Coleridge in England, and Emerson and the New England Transcendentalists in America, is not to be denied, nevertheless it is to Swedenborg, not so much as a formative factor in the past, as a critical and corrective standard for the philosophy of the present and of future time, that I desire in these essays to call attention.
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