LATER PERIOD OF LIFE: CONCLUSION
And to a good friend of ours Mr. Collin said—
"Swedenborg was of a stature a little above the common size, of very perfect form, erect and easy in his carriage, with a placid expression of dignity beaming from his countenance; he was affable in his manners, easy of access, and always ready to converse freely on subjects relating to either world, but singularly unapt to obtrude his ideas on others, either in conversation or by his writings, though firm and unwavering with regard to the truth of his relations. His history from very early life was reputed to be such as evinced great purity, as well as strength, of mental character." Speaking of the affair of the Queen of Sweden, which her librarian had told him from her mouth, and of other similar occurrences, Mr. Collin said that he believed "no one at Stockholm presumed to doubt of his having some kind of supernatural intercourse with the spiritual world in all these cases," and this, he said, was not strange, "for at that time occasional communication between this and the invisible world was believed to exist by many of the most learned men in Sweden."
We have seen that at his home in Stockholm—a simple one-story house in his loved garden—
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