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Rh from existing systems, it matters little whence and how much. We must, however, claim that their experience from 1540-1599, and their painstaking efforts in drawing up the Ratio, had a considerable share in the results that attended their system. Above all, what is most characteristic in the Jesuit system, the wonderful unity and organization, was not borrowed from any other system, but is the work of the framers of the Constitutions and of the Ratio Studiorum.