With some peoples the Mordvins, for example the guardian-spirit system is very specific and there are a very large number of spirits; with others, such as the Sami, the Nenets, and the Ob Ugrians, there are fewer of them, and Herr der Tiere ("Master of Animals") game spirits predominate.
This culture, this spirit, this system is not perfect, but it is our own.
Developer Ken Levine has commented that the "spirit of System Shock is player-powered gameplay: the spirit of letting the player drive the game, not the game designer", and at Irrational Games "... that's always the game we ideally want to make".
Output was small, and by the late 1990s the spirits distribution system had consolidated and a handful of large companies ruled the game.
In some cases, these comments have come from research areas that already regard themselves as more holistic than molecular biology and which identify a kindred spirit in systems biology.
João Saldanha, the builder of the 1970 Brazil team, once complained bitterly that his successors studied in Europe and "imprisoned" players who should be free spirits into systems that repressed them.
"He was a bearer of the spirit of the system".
"It undermines the whole spirit of the system," said David Arkush, director of Congress Watch at Public Citizen.
"We need to change the spirit of the system," says Azyz Amamyma, a blogger imprisoned during the final days of the Ben Ali regime.
Was it in the spirit of the system of self-regulation to publish Ipso's finding and yet assert that the ruling was wrong?
Earlier today, rival stent maker Guidant announced trial results for its Spirit First stent system.
