_Classical law is a law of bodies._ In the general stock composing the world it distinguishes bodily Persons and bodily Things and, like a sort of Euclidean mathematic of public life, establishes ratios between them. The affinity between mathematical and legal thought is very close. The intention, in both, is to take the prima facie data, to separate out the sensuous-incidental, and to find the intellectually basic principle--the _pure_ form of the object, the _pure_ type of the situation, the _pure_ connexity of cause and effect. Life, in the Classical, presents itself to the critical waking-consciousness of the Classical man in a form penetrated with Euclidean character, and the image that is generated in the legal mind is one of bodies, of positional relations between bodies, and of reciprocal effects of bodies by contact and reaction--just as with Democritus’s atoms. It is juristic statics.[85] V The first creation of “Arabian” law was _the concept of the incorporeal person_. Here is an element entirely absent in Classical law,[86] and appearing quite suddenly in the “Classical” jurists (who were all Aramæans), which cannot be estimated at its full value, or in its symbolic importance as an index of the new world-feeling, unless we realize the full extent of the field that this Arabian law covered. The new landscape embraces Syria and northern Mesopotamia, southern Arabia and Byzantium. In all these regions a new law was coming into being, an oral or written customary law of the same “early” type as that met with in the _Sachsenspiegel_. Wonderfully, the _law of individual cities_ which is so self-evident on Classical ground is here silently transmuted into a _law of creed-communities_. It is Magian, magic, through and through. Always _one_ Pneuma, _one_ like spirit, _one_ identical knowledge and comprehension of whole and sole truth, welds the believers of the same religion into a unit of will and action, _into one juristic person_. A juristic person is thus a collective entity which has intentions, resolutions, and responsibilities as an entity. In Christianity we see the idea already actual and effective in the primitive community at Jerusalem,[87] and presently it soars to the conception of a triune Godhead of three Persons.[88]