Not seek for exactness in all matters alike, but in each according to the subject-matter, and so far as properly belongs to the system.
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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
It may be said that hysteria is as ignorant of the science of the structure of the nervous system as we ourselves before we have learnt it.
The normal sequence is that energy is prompted at the perceptual system, passes into consciousness, and thence to the motor system, where it is discharged by action. (I feel an unpleasant sensation, realize that I have been bitten by a mosquito, raise my hand, and swat the insect.)
When I was young, most teachers of philosophy in British and American universities were Hegelians, so that, until I read Hegel, I supposed there must be some truth to his system; I was cured, however, by discovering that everything he said on the philosophy of mathematics was plain nonsense.
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.
There is no more individuated being in the system. We only ever have to deal with families of trajectories.
An impersonal generation will take the place of Nature’s hideous system. In vast state incubators, rows upon rows of gravid bottles will supply the world with the population it requires. The family system will disappear; society, sapped at its very base, will have to find new foundations; and Eros, beautifully and irresponsibly free, will flit like a gay butterfly from flower to flower through a sunlit world.
Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
