Greaves; and for the last years has been more
conspicuous than any other writer in that connexion of opinion. The
Monthly Magazine, during his editorship, really was conducted in a
bolder and more creative spirit than any other British Journal; and
though papers on the highest transcendental themes were found in odd
vicinity with the lowest class of flash and so-called comic tales,
yet a necessity, we suppose, of British taste made these strange
bed-fellows acquainted, and Mr. Heraud had done what he could. His
papers called "Foreign Aids to Self Intelligence," were of signal
merit, especially the papers on Boehmen and Swedenborg. The last is,
we think, the very first adequate attempt to do justice to this
mystic, by an analysis of his total works; and, though avowedly
imperfect, is, as far as it goes, a faithful piece of criticism. We
hope that Mr. Heraud, who announces a work in three volumes, called
"Foreign Aids to Self Intelligence, designed for an Historical
Introduction to the Study of Ontological Science, preparatory to a
Critique of Pure Being," as now in preparation for the press, and of
which, we understand, the Essays in the Monthly Magazine were a part,
will be enabled to fulfil his design.
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