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veuieuce. If a natural system should be found to explain all the mutual 

 relations of all the members of the system, it would be a dynamic one. 



8. CONSTRUCTION OF THE DYNAMIC SYSTEM. 



The question now arises as to how to construct the dynamic system. 

 The best and simplest way of doing this is to take a static system like 

 ENGLER'S or BENTHAM-HOOKER'S, as a foundation, or rather as a framework, 

 and to put it, so to speak, into a dynamic condition. To this matter, I shall 

 return later on, but let us now 'proceed to discuss the reasons for so doing. 



However different may be the static system taken at first as a framework, 

 the dynamic system, after it is completed, is ever the same in its real 

 meaning. It is only the appearance of the system that varies with the 

 framework. EXGLER'S svsteni is different from BENTHAM-HOOKER'S ; but 



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the difference is merely because of the difference of ENGLER'S view from 

 BENTHAM-HOOKER'S. When we take ENGLER'S system as a framework or, so 

 to speak, as a starting point, for the construction of a dynamic system, the 

 latter system is quite the same in its real meaning as that constructed by 

 taking BENTHAM-HOOKER'S system. This work of construction is something 

 like a cruise round the world. However much the starting point may be 

 shifted, after the voyage is finished, the ports we have called at are all the 

 same. Let me take another metaphor to explain my idea correctly. To 

 establish natural relations, which is the principal object of constructing a 

 natural system, is, as it were, to acquire a thorough understanding of the 

 features of a mountain. As an example, take Mt. Fuji, that fitting emblem 

 of the Japanese nation and my special favourite since my youth. As a 

 natural system has several different aspects, so has the volcano. As the 

 former should be considered from different points of view, so should be the 



