...Smith further distinguishes actual machines from imaginary systems of machinery in the following terms: a machine is a little system created to perform as...effects which the artist has occasion for. A system is on imaginary machine invented to connect together in fancy those different movements and effects which...

...as systems and emphasizes the basic similarity between systems and machines. A machine, wrote Smith, "is a little system created to perform, as well as...movements and effects which the artist has occasion for." He goes on to say that a system "is an imaginary machine invented to connect together in the fancy...

...wall of the universe, to whose inside all those little sparkling objects were attached .... Systems in many respects resemble machines. A machine is a...system is an imaginary machine invented to connect together in the fancy those different movements and effects which are already in reality performed....

...Philosophy of the Human Mind, 157. 30. Ibid., 164. 31. Stewart, Dissertation, 1: 505. 32. "Systems in many respects resemble machines. A machine is a...system is an imaginary machine invented to connect together in the fancy those different movements and effects which are already in reality performed"...

...Principles Which Lead and Direct Philosophical Enquiries; Illustrated by the History of Astronomy": Systems in many respects resemble machines. A machine is a...connect together, in reality, those different movements which the artist has occasion for. A system is an imaginary machine invented to connect together in...