Does the best stage-trick of your liberal clergy help them to anything but a plasticity of mind to be moulded into artistic forms of skepticism?
Almost against my will there was produced in me a plasticity of mind that seemed to demand the impress of some foreign mould.
AR] This is the theory by which Professor James Thompson would account for the apparent plasticity of glacial ice.
The possibilities thus opened up are very great: no less than the combination by mankind of the stability of instinct with the plasticity of reason.
Concentrating the washed tar by heat, till it becomes pitchy, and then restoring the plasticity which it thereby loses, by the addition of tallow, or animal or expressed oils.
This plasticity exists, however, in very different degrees in the different clays.
The resemblances thus worked out through successive generations attest the astonishing plasticity of bodily forms, a plasticity which would be incredible were not its evidence under our eyes in every quarter of the globe.
Man's life in society, together with the great plasticity of his mind, its great capacity for new adaptations, secures him this enormous advantage; the two things are necessarily correlated.
Without theplasticity of mind, his life in society would benefit him relatively little.
The whole system lacks plasticity and adaptability; for it is relatively mechanical and of a low degree of integration.
As some species are practically impervious to air when wet, this plasticity of the cell walls causes them to collapse as the water passes outward from the cell cavities.
Consequently, it follows from necessity that large internal strains are set up when the wood shrinks, and were it not for its plasticity it would rupture.
It was doubtless because of the opportunities they afforded him for demonstrating the plasticity of living organism that the most important position in his work was assigned to them.
Plasticity of form had resulted from the efforts of preceding painters, but here for the first time was a plasticity of method which moulded itself like putty with the slightest change of illumination.
Only when it is a result of ordered plasticity does it have power to move us.
Consequently he never achieved the plasticity of volume which Daumier, alone among the modern men, had possessed.
In Rubens were consummated the aims of the older painters; that is, he attained to the highest degree of compositional plasticity which was possible with the fixed means of his period.
In point of fact, then, it was Alick who was really moulding her, in excess of that unconscious plasticity and imitation already spoken of.
That plasticity also means power to change prevailing custom is ignored.
We have already noted how original plasticity is warped and docility is taken mean advantage of.
For the plasticity of the young presents a temptation to those having greater experience and hence greater power which they rarely resist.
That the most precious part of plasticity consists in ability to form habits of independent judgment and of inventive initiation has been ignored.
Plasticity and originality have been opposed to each other.
The more consciousness becomes dissociated, the greater becomes the plasticity of the dream situation, the less becomes the amount of conscious lying and of consciousness in general.
And plasticity is the key to survival and prosperity.
Of Mr. King's observations in regard to plasticity of physical structure in connection with rapidly changing environment and the struggle for existence, we propose to speak at another time.
Never again will there be such susceptibility to drill and discipline, such plasticity to habituation, or such ready adjustment to new conditions.
Plasticity is at its maximum, utterance at its minimum.
One of these is the excessive time given to other languages just at the psychological period of greatest linguistic plasticity and capacity for growth.
Modern decay of muscles, especially in girls--Plasticity of motor habits at puberty III.
It would thus exhibit a plasticity which might be compared to that of soft wax.
But ice is only plastic under pressure; it is not plastic under tension: and this is the important point which the vague theory of plasticitywas unable to explain.
The water of plasticity cannot escape and therefore the clay warps and cracks.
A clay which exhibits a high degree of plasticity can be easily shaped but it cannot be safely dried.
Porosity is therefore the reverse of plasticity and these two properties must be adjusted so as to balance each other.
The investigator soon learns to withhold final judgment, realizing that the primary conditions for intellectual development are the plasticity and openness of mind that dogmatism and finality destroy.
Sollmann expressed the opinion that the synthetic preparation is inferior to the paraffin used in the formula, basing the view on the greater plasticity of the paraffin.
A certain measure of plasticityhas to be counted in as part of their very nature.
Indeed, mind and plasticity are almost the same thing.
But how plasticityis related to race we do not yet know.
Now clearly it is in some sense true that the child's whole nature, its modicum of plasticity included, is handed on from its parents.
Let it not be forgotten, however, that individual plasticity plays its part too in the determination of human colour.
In the background, too, lurks the question whether such effects of individual plasticity can be transmitted to offspring, and become part of the inheritance.
Or it may be simply that plasticity increases with inter-breeding on a wider basis.
The flint shells of the radiolaria and diatomes, the chalky cells of the thalamophora and calcocytea, the cellulose shells of the desmidiacea and syphonea, show the extraordinary plasticity of the constructive cytoplasm (cf.
Only when attention is directed to the individual object does its full plasticity appear; see it as an element of the environing whole, and it flattens out to view.
The complexity of poetry is the source of its strength, lending it something of the inwardness of music and the plasticity of the pictorial arts; but is also the source of its weakness.
The depth and the extent of space, the distance and the distribution of objects, light and shade and air, are all independent of the plasticity of individual things, which tends to disappear in proportion as they are emphasized.
