Before a life-work such as that of EMANUEL SWEDENBORG one cannot but
be filled with admiration. Perhaps not so much on account of the
_manysidedness_ of it; for that was not so very unusual at the time
in which SWEDENBORG lived—in the 18th century;[12] but because his
researches were at the same time so _comprehensive_ and _penetrating_,
because he made such great and important conquests within the most
different departments of knowledge; indeed, in many places discovered by
his sharpsighted genius the _lines of development_ along which science
was to proceed for the gaining of its end.