(vii) The next level is the "human" level, that is of the individual human being considered as a system... - Kenneth E. Boulding

Canada has no cultural unity no linguistic unity no religious unity no economic unity no geographic unity. All it has is unity.

(ix) To complete the structure of systems we should add a final turret for transcendental systems...

Economic progress... means the discovery and application of better ways of doing things to satisfy our wants. The piping of water to a household that previously dragged it from a well, the growing of two blades of grass where one grew before, the development of a power loom that enables one man to weave ten times as much as he could before, the use of steam power and electric power instead of horse or human power — all these things clearly represent economic progress.