Literary notes about system (AI summary)
In literature, the word “system” encompasses a wide range of meanings that reflect both concrete arrangements and abstract conceptual frameworks. It is employed to describe physical structures such as infrastructural networks and biological mechanisms, as seen with references to the nervous and reproductive systems [1, 2, 3] and even the navigational paths of rivers [4]. At the same time, it captures intellectual and ideological constructs, ranging from comprehensive systems of thought [5, 6, 7] and logical categorizations [8] to the underpinnings of governmental and social orders [9, 10, 11, 12]. Additionally, “system” is used to denote artistic or methodological arrangements, whether in music [13] or in the structured presentation of ideas in fields like theology, education, and philosophy [14, 15, 16]. This versatile usage highlights literature’s ability to articulate the organization inherent in both tangible and intangible realms.
- The shock to my already overstrained nervous system was terrible in the extreme, and with a superhuman effort I strove to break my awful bonds.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs - The reproductive system of animals differs widely from that of plants, but both are reproductive systems.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler - But in fact the nervous system is only a specialized mechanism for keeping all bodily activities working together.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey - The Amazonian water system affords some 50,000 miles of river suitable for navigation.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide by Various - It is to be in the position of Aristotle or (at the lowest) Herbert Spencer, to be a universal morality, a complete system of thought.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. Chesterton - Every one has aims, but very few have anything approaching a system of thought.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer - A system, to be a system at all, must come as a closed system, reversible in this or that detail, perchance, but in its essential features never!
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James - The main importance of the system lies in the logical categories which it set up and under which it classed all phenomena.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell - The American system, which divides the local authority among so many citizens, does not scruple to multiply the functions of the town officers.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville - Under the feudal system in its vigor, the holding of land was only one
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes - Is the Presidential System a better form of government for the United States than the Parliamental System?
— from The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and J. Berg Esenwein - But compare our [ 195 ] system of government with those of the countries you have visited—” “Oh!”
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal - A group of rhythmical series (see 2532 ) which is of greater extent than a verse is called a System .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane - The Sānkhya Sūtras , long regarded as the oldest manual of the system, and attributed to Kapila, were probably not composed till about 1400 A.D.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell - ‘We go upon the practical mode of teaching, Nickleby; the regular education system.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens - Thus coherence as the definition of truth fails because there is no proof that there can be only one coherent system.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell