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Swedenborg could be desired than that which is afforded in the following extracts from Heinze's "Observations on Kant's Lectures in Metaphysics," which fully bear out all that Professor Vaihinger has asserted as to the deep hold that Swedenborg's doctrine of the two worlds had taken on Kant's mind. I have translated them from the Abhandlungen der Sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften: Leipzig, 1894.