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Kant pined to see Swedenborg himself, and waited eagerly for his book, 'Arcana Coelestia. At last he obtained this work, at the ransom, ruinous to Kant at that time, of 7£. But he was disappointed with what he read, and in 'Träume eines Geistersehers, made a somewhat sarcastic attempt at a metaphysical theory of apparitions. 'Velut aegri somnia vanae Finguntur species' is his motto.
Humano capiti cervicem pictor equinam Jungere si velit, et varias inducere plumas, Undique collatis membris, ut turpiter atrum Desinat in piscem mulier formosa superne; Spectatum admissi risum teneatis, amici? Credite, Pisones, isti tabulae, fore librum Persimilem, cujus, velut aegri somnia, vanae Fingentur species. HOR., Ars Poet. 1.
Soon the Insanae et Vanae climbed in wave after wave of melody, was caught, held, lingered in the air, softly died again. Olva was detached he saw his body beaten, imprisoned, tortured, killed. But he was not there. He was riding heaven in quest of God. At the gates of his college the news met him. He had been waiting for it so long a time that now he had to act his horror.
The Odes of Horace in the first three books, which are devoted to politics, show an attitude of antagonism and severe expostulation; he boldly rebukes vice, and calls upon the strong hand to punish it: "Quid tristes querimoniae, Si non supplicio culpa reciditur? Quid leges sine moribus Vanae proficiunt?"
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