146 Metaphors for systems

"Who shall ever again have the temerity to suggest that the jury system is not the greatest of our institutions?" "Pst!" answered Cap.

With 1915, the system of a month's training was revivedpitifully little, yet the best that could be done.

This complete system is indeed an ideal, never adequately comprehended by the human mind; but it is nevertheless the ideal which determines all efforts of constructive philosophyincluding those efforts which take the generalisation of some special science as their all-comprehending principle.

On the other hand, the human system is a very elastic piece of mechanism, and modern man, far from being the degenerate which some admirers of cave-man hardihood have pictured him, is able to undergo a tremendous amount of privation.

The Linnaean system is an easy and delightful path to the knowledge of plants; but, like all other human structures, it has its imperfections, and some of which have been modified by judicious alterations.

The system of espionage which is constantly kept up over slaves is the most worrying and intolerable that can be imagined.

'In a commercial nation,' says the orator, 'the system of blockade is mere suicide.'

His system is absolute naked Tritheism.

Evidently a good system of cairns is the best possible travelling arrangement on this great snow plain.

Both the British supply system and the medical corps were marvels.

12.Of all the systems of syntax, or of grammar, which it has been my fortune to examine, a book which was first published by Robinson and Franklin of New York in 1839, a fair-looking duodecimo volume of 384 pages, under the brief but rather ostentatious title, "THE GRAMMAR of the English Language" is, I think, the most faulty,the most remarkable for the magnitude, multitude, and variety, of its strange errors, inconsistencies, and defects.

The system is the pari-mutuel, and here one seems to be more at its mercy even than in France.

[Footnote A: Since there were five judges, the system used was the following: A story of place 1 was given 5 points " " " " 2 " " 4 " " " " " 3 " " 3 " " " " " 4 " " 2 " " " " " 5 " " 1 point.

Nevertheless, it would be erroneous to suggest that the dual system of government is a failure.

This system it is the object of the present address to defeat and destroy.

No system has been more misunderstood than this.

A system of deception, a pack of lies, would be a strange means of inculcating virtue.

The dogmatic system is an envelopment which religion accepts with a smile.

The guild system was the solution of the industrial problem offered and enforced by Christianity working through secular life; it presupposed the small social and industrial unit and becomes meaningless if conceived in the gigantic and comprehensive scale of modern institutions.

The reason is to be found in the intense antipathy with which Mr. Pattison regarded what he calls "the Catholic reaction" over Europe, and in the fact that undoubtedly Calvin's system and influence was the great force which resisted both what was bad and false in it, and also what was good, true, generous, humane.

" The whole system was the lees of slavery, and was surely the most demoralizing, the most grotesque method of hiring service in the whole civilized world.

7.] But the screw cone system is not the only compensator used in sewing machinery; where it cannot be easily introduced, other devices have been employed.

This system, which became necessary in order to deal with the enormous mass of undigested matter which has overwhelmed every legislature as a result of the present chaotic and irresponsible procedure, is perhaps both the most undemocratic device ever put in practice by a democracy, and the most fruitful of venality, corruption and injustice.

Dealing with such great and fundamental themes, each system of doctrine is an intellectual triumph.

The Bertillon system of identificationwhat is it but a summary of trivialities?

146 Metaphors for  systems