The Secret of Swedenborg

ual form or objectivity in him, as the statue has ideal form or objectivitv in the genius of the sculptor, or the child moral form or objectivity in the loins of his father, but they must actually go forth from him, or exist in their own proper sub- stance, in their own constitutional identity, just as the statue exists in the appropriate constitutional substance which the marble gives it, or the child in the proper constitutional linea- ments with which the mother invests it. The legal maxim is, de non apparentibus et non existentibiis eadem est ratio. The philosophic demand is broader. It says, no esse without exis- tere ; no reality without corresponding actuality ; no soul with- out body ; no form without substance : no being without mani- festation ; in short, no creation on God's part save in so far as there is a rigidly constitutional response and reaction on ours.