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WILKINSON, JAMES JOHN GARTH (1812-1899)

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WILKINSON, See also:JAMES See also:JOHN See also:GARTH (1812-1899) , Swedenborgian writer, the son of James John Wilkinson (died 1845), a writer on See also:mercantile See also:law and See also:judge of the See also:County See also:Palatine of See also:Durham, was See also:born in See also:London on the 3rd of See also:June 1812. He studied See also:medicine, and set up as a homoeopathic See also:doctor in Wimpole See also:Street in 1834. He was See also:early attracted by the See also:works of See also:William See also:Blake, whose Songs of Experience he endeavoured to interpret, and of See also:Swedenborg, to the elucidation of whose writings he devoted the best energies of his See also:life. Between 184o and 185o he edited Swedenborg's See also:treatises on The See also:Doctrine of Charity, The See also:Animal See also:Kingdom, Outlines of a Philosophic See also:Argument on the See also:Infinite, and Hieroglyphic See also:Key to Natural and Spiritual Mysteries. Wilkinson's preliminary discourses to these See also:translations and his criticisms of See also:Coleridge's comments upon Swedenborg displayed a striking aptitude not only for mystical See also:research, but also for See also:original philosophic debate. The vigour of his thought won admiration from See also:Henry James (See also:father of the novelist) and from See also:Emerson, through whom he became known to See also:Carlyle and See also:Fronde; and his See also:speculation further attracted See also:Tennyson, the Oliphants and See also:Edward See also:Maitland. He wrote an able See also:sketch of Swedenborg for the See also:Penny Cyclopaedia, and a See also:standard See also:biography, Emanuel Swedenborg (published in 1849); but See also:interest in this subject far from exhausted his intellectual See also:energy, which was, indeed, multiform. He was a traveller, a linguist, well versed in Scandinavian literature and See also:philology, the author of mystical poems entitled Improvisations from the Spirit (18J7), a social and medical reformer, and a convinced opponent of See also:vivisection and also of See also:vaccination. He died at See also:Finchley Road, See also:South See also:Hampstead, where he had resided for nearly fifty years, on 18th See also:October 1899. He is commemorated by a bust.and portrait in the rooms of the Swedenborgian Society in Bloomsbury Street, London.

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