Also of the tendency of one's writings one's readers are the best judges.

I don't profess to write a religious commentary on my writings.

I am content to stand by the obvious meaning of what I have written, according to the common sense of the general reader.
The tendency of my writings to Swedenborgianism has been observed by others, though I had read Swedenborg, when I wrote most of them, as little as the American editor of 'Robert Hall' can have done, and less can't be certainly.

Otherwise, the said editor would have known that the central doctrine of Swedenborgianism being the Godhead of Jesus Christ, no Unitarian, liberal or unliberal, could have produced works Swedenborgian in character, and that William and Mary Howitt being Unitarian (which I believe they are) couldn't have a tendency at the same time to Swedenborgianism, unless it should be possible for them to be bolt upright with a leaning to the floor.

I speak to a wise man.
Judge what I say.