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The System (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠necessarily based on premises that by its very nature it cannot question. The systematic thinker begins with assumptions that seem “self-evident” but surely are not.

A System (n.) assumes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠that the true being of things must be orderly — a moral prejudice: nothing proves the in-itself follows the recipe for a model civil servant.

A System (n.) attracts ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the young and impresses the unwary by its mass, and a large book of deductive philosophy is much to be suspected, for the world goes against such abstractions.

A System (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠rounded off by play-acting, because the systematiser must present his weaker qualities in the style of his stronger and impersonate a uniformly strong nature.

A System (n.) marks ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a lack of integrity in whoever wills one.