"" "For ourselves, it is not as a Seer of Ghosts, but as a Seer of Truths, MARCHIONESS OSSOLI (Sarah Margaret Fuller). LONDON: ARTHUR HALL & CO., PATERNOSTER ROW; JAMES HUNTON, YORK. 1854. 210.1.225. To my Wife. MY DEAR Lizz. It is a pleasure to me to ask you to accept this volume, as a memento of affection. I see not why a man should be accused of bad taste, for inscribing a Book to the only person likely to appreciate the action: and then the topics of this Book have been the subjects of long, long conversation between us-by our fireside, and in our field walks, and all quiet hours. This Book, written for the most part with your sympathy, and not without your assistance, to whom may I so appropiately, so affectionately, so sincerely inscribe it as to you? EDWIN PAXTON HOOD. Nibley, Dursley, Gloucestershire, Feb. 3, 1854. Preface. I "Then of course you are a Swedenborgian," said a friend to me the other day, after looking over the sheets of my book, and I said, Why so? and he could give no better answer, why I should be so, than that I had written a Life, and attempted to expound the tenets of Emanuel Swedenborg! have also written the Life and attempted some exposition of John Milton, but I have never been called a Miltonist-and of Andrew Marvell, yet I have never been styled a Marvellian? Cannot a man spell out and accurately record an inscription • on an Egpytian Sarcophagus without being mistaken for a Gipsy or a descendant of the Pharaohs. I am no more a Swedenborgian than I am a Bunyanist, an Howeist, a Bernardite, a Franciscan, a Moreist, |