Excerpt from The Wisdom of Angels Concerning the Divine Providence: Translated From the Latin of the Hon. Emanuel Swedenborg It may not be foreign to our present Purpose, to take a View of such Opinions, Sentiments, and Reasonings, that so the Clearness, Truth, Excellency and Expediency of our Author's Doctrine in the following wonderful Treatise may the better appear. And first, in Regard to Things natural. If we look into the Writings of the most celebrated Philosophers of modern Times, a very few Names excepted, we shall find all the most remarkable Phenomena of Nature resolved into mere mechanical Operations, as if Nature could of herself operate to produce Effects. We shall see chemical Combinations, and the Compositions of subtle Fluids, appealed to, in Order to account for the several Births, Productions, and Changes observable in the external World and its various Elements. We shall see Divine Mercies and Divine Judgments, as exhibited in temporal Nature, removed far out of fight, being confounded with the uncertain and indeterminate Configurations of Particles of Matter, which are supposed capable of forming such Arrangements, Conjunctions, and Disjunctions, one with another, as to promote the Blessing or Misery of Man by an Agency separate from that of the great Creator. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.