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System

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set of interacting or interdependent components

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Systems in many respects resemble machines. A machine is a little system, created to perform, as well as to connect together, in reality, those different movements and effects which the artist has occasion for.
Adam Smith, The Essays of Adam Smith
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These conceptions serve as the fundament of a perfectly elaborated system of relationship, capable of expressing several hundred different relations of a single individual. More still, this system is not only fully accepted by all American Indians--no exception has been found so far--but it is also in use with hardly any modifications among the original inhabitants of India, among the Dravidian tribes of the Dekan…
Friedrich Engels, The origin of the family, private property, and the state
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last preceding chapters. Others are Dependent; that is to say, Subordinate to some Soveraign Power, to which every one, as also their Representative is Subject. Of Systemes subordinate, some are Politicall, and some Private. Politicall (otherwise Called Bodies Politique, and Persons In Law,) are those, which are made by authority from the Soveraign Power of the Common-wealth.
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
The chapter “CHAPTER XXII. OF SYSTEMES SUBJECT, POLITICALL, AND PRIVATE” is titled for System; names System several times.
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