X. Swedenhorg. " In relation to subsistence, all fi-

nite things, produced in the way here described, [i. e. from the Infinite,] do actually subsist from the same cause and mode, which brought them into existence." Principia, page 54.
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Spinoza. " G-od is not only the cause of the begin- ning of the existence of things, but of their continuance in existence." Ethics, part 1, prop. 24, corol.