Why for the observer impressionability in addition to vigour, corporal proportion and commercial ability?
Again, we have seen in the preceding chapter that the impressionability of the nerves and brain in the degenerate subject is blunted.
The origin of mental impressionability seems to lie then, not in one, but in the two general regions of activity--that connected with the struggle for food and that connected with reproduction.
But in addition we have the impressionability growing out of sexual life which has been in question above, and which is more closely related to appreciation than to cognition.
The strain on the attention in the food and conflict side of life involves the development of mental impressionability, particularly of an impressionability on the side of cognition.
In a second mild form there is no permanent disease, only an impressionability of the mucous membrane of the bowel to causes which induce hyperaemia and excessive secretion ending in diarrhoea.
It will depend on the size of the calculus, on the point where impacted, and on the impressionability of the subject.
Such heightened sensuous impressionability is celebrated in much of our most beautiful love poetry of to-day, notably in Sara Teasdale's.
In the modern English poet the austere prophetic character of the Norse scald is wedded to the impressionability of the troubadour.
Even in the letters themselves, however, the element of sexual impressionability may be traced.
