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It is a system that learns during its existence. (In other words, it learns, for each situation, which response permits it to reach its objectives.) It continually acts, mentally and externally, and by acting reaches its objectives more often than pure chance would indicate. (Normally much more often.) For acting, and for its internal processes, it consumes energy.

∴ Hjartaland

The actual balance of political power at any given time is… the product, on the one hand, of geographical conditions, both economic and strategic, and, on the other hand, of the relative number, virility, equipment and organization of the competing peoples.

Aperiere

The derivation of the name (Latin Aprilis) is uncertain.

The traditional etymology from the Latin aperire, "to open," in allusion to its being the season when trees and flowers begin to "open," is supported by comparison with the modern Greek use of (opening) for spring.

Since most of the Roman months were named in honor of divinities, and as April was sacred to Venus, the Festum Veneris et Fortunae Virilis being held on the first day, it has been suggested that Aprilis was originally her month Aphrilis, from her Greek name Aphrodite (Aphros), or from the Etruscan name Apru.

Jacob Grimm suggests the name of a hypothetical god or hero, Aper or Aprus.