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James John Garth Wilkinson (
June 3,
1812 -
October 18,
1899), was a
Swedenborgian writer.
The son of James John Wilkinson (died 1845), a writer on mercantile
law and judge of the County Palatine of
Durham, he was born in
London. He studied
medicine, and set up as a homoeopathic doctor in Wimpole Street in 1834. Attracted by the works of
William Blake, he studied the
Songs of Experience. He was also inspired by
Emanuel Swedenborg, to the elucidation of whose writings he devoted much of his life. Between 1840 and 1850 he edited Swedenborg's treatises on
The Doctrine of Charity,
The Animal Kingdom,
Outlines of a Philosophic Argument on the Infinite, and
Hieroglyphic Key to Natural and Spiritual Mysteries.
Wilkinson's preliminary discourses to these translations and his criticisms of
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's comments on Swedenborg displayed an aptitude not only for mystical research, but also for original philosophic debate. The vigour of his thought won admiration from
Henry James, Sr. (father of
the novelist) and from
Ralph Waldo Emerson, through whom he met
Thomas Carlyle and
James Anthony Froude; and his speculation further attracted
Alfred Tennyson, the Oliphants and
Edward Maitland.
He wrote an able sketch of Swedenborg for the
Penny Cyclopaedia, and a standard biography,
Emanuel Swedenborg (1849); but these were not his only interests. He was a traveller, a linguist, well versed in
Scandinavian literature and
philology, the author of mystical poems entitled
Improvisations from the Spirit (1857), a social and medical reformer, a convinced opponent of
vivisection and also of
vaccination. He died at Finchley Road, South
Hampstead, where he'd lived for nearly fifty years. He is commemorated by a bust and portrait in the rooms of the Swedenborgian Society in
Bloomsbury Street, London.
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