Thus far no substance has been discovered with a mechanical responsiveness to so feeble a ray of light; in the world of nature and art the coherer stands alone.
We have thus a means of comparing the sensitiveness of the retina to light with the responsiveness of the Marconi coherer to electric waves, after both radiations have undergone a journey of miles.
In the second place, that the ethical choice may truly express the pupil's inward state, rather than his outward constraint, it must grow out of his insight as suffused by his social responsiveness to ethical ideas.
Even where the association with his mates is perfectly innocent, there is a growing responsiveness to mere suggestion.
In the young mathematician this responsiveness was a marked trait, at variance with another more coldly intellectual quality.
He found her smile peculiarly winning, and was conscious of the responsiveness of her fingers, so different from the limp passivity of many a feminine greeting.
The rods have no differential responsiveness to different wave-lengths, remaining still in the "first stage" in the development of color vision, and consequently no colors are seen in faint light.
In the form board and picture completion tests, this responsiveness to relationships comes out clearly.
A special aptitude is a specific responsiveness to a certain kind of stimulus or object.
Stop the stimulus and the original responsiveness returns after a short time.
But the factors in intelligent behavior--retentiveness, responsiveness to relationships, persistence, etc.
A certain degree of mental isolation of the group following as a consequence of the rapport and sympatheticresponsiveness of members of the group.
To increase the responsiveness of this subtle matter we have to practise concentration, and so heighten the vibrations, or in other words to evolve or perfect the astral principle.
To increase the responsiveness upon the more spiritual planes of consciousness.
The ever-shifting responsiveness to rumor which distinguishes a crowd was noted.
She sat forward in her chair, with that absorbed responsiveness he had marked in her before.
He noticed how, without words, she seemed to emanate responsiveness and understanding.
A responsiveness that in maturity made them favorites with every one who knew them, and prompted the tactful ways that convinced each admirer that his approval was the last seal to their satisfaction in the fame they had won.
But somehow they seem to lack the pride and responsiveness that I find in those with bird-dog ancestry.
The position was a more rational and scientific one than that of Bentham, but it still failed to account for the a priori character of the moral sense, the ready responsiveness with which early training evokes in man the sentiment of duty.
What I wish to point out is the responsiveness of the Upland South to emotional religious and political appeal.
Responsiveness is the principle of Spirit's Self-expression.
We can safely take this Responsiveness for granted as pure natural law.
Its livingness is patent to our observation, at any rate from the point where we recognise it in the vegetable kingdom; but its intelligence and responsiveness are not, perhaps, at once so obvious.
Sheer dare-deviltry would arouse in them a responsiveness which had remained numb to the call of industry.
For a moment he contemplated throwing away caution and seeking once more to coerce her responsiveness in the imprisonment of his sudden embrace but he hesitated.
Nevertheless, the quick responsiveness of one's sensibilities in the expression of the various qualities developed by the cultivation of the voice greatly facilitates the manifestation of the thought itself.
The object now is to secure sensibility and responsiveness in the voice.
However, the responsiveness of the voice in variety of pitch, quality, and power is also a very large factor in the illumination of the pause.
Alexandria deals only in Egyptian cottons, and Bombay, whose dealings are confined mostly to the native staples, has neither the responsiveness nor the completeness of the remaining markets.
Once she yielded to this foolish impulse, and felt a quivering sense of pleasure at the sudden startled responsiveness with which Eleanor returned a kiss, clinging to her as though she were an older, stronger sister.
There is a lack of richness of content, and a lack of responsiveness in the school to the stirring life outside the school.
Such responsiveness being itself creative and a powerful factor in producing and bringing to the front the superior man, it must be regarded as one of the most necessary and fundamental qualities of a democracy.
It is here that the difference between the mental scientist and the uninstructed person comes in; the former knows of this responsiveness and makes use of it, and the latter cannot use it because he does not know it.
All mental treatment depends on this responsivenessof spirit in its lower degrees to higher degrees of itself.
Since, then, we have recognized the presence of a universal intelligence permeating all things, we must also recognize a corresponding responsiveness hidden deep down in their nature and ready to be called into action when appealed to.
The understanding and the appreciation must of course vary according to the temperament and the responsiveness of the child.
Children who are born with good native responsiveness to rhythm often are so badly trained or so neglected as to seem to have none, and it is part of the office of instruction to call out whatever powers lie in them latent.
Art requires not only knowledge but temperament; both master and pupil must have a responsiveness to the imaginative, or little can be accomplished.
The substitute is a poor one, but it has at least some degree of the universal human responsiveness to rhythm to appeal to.
Classes are more effectively trained for college tests by teaching them to think, to examine for themselves, to have real responsiveness and feeling for literature, than they can possibly be by any drill along formal lines.
In this matter of literary workmanship, for instance, it means showing them that they have, without being especially conscious of the fact, a responsiveness to well-turned forms of speech and to skilful use of words.
Children are naturally histrionic, and advantage may be taken of this fact to stimulate their imagination and to quicken their responsiveness to literature, if seriousness and sincerity are not forgotten.
Her companion did not embarrass her by his lack of responsiveness as he embarrassed most people.
But the warm responsiveness of her made her easy to manage as a general rule, and Mrs. Peck's government was by no means exacting.
The mutual responsiveness of their hearts is expressed in St. 24.
The condition of such responsiveness it may require a long while to fulfil.
New attitudes of the soul, a meta/noia, may be demanded, before such responsiveness is possible.
This delicate responsiveness of the vaso-motor system has given rise to some curious spontaneous phenomena, and has suggested some experiments, which are probably as yet in their infancy.
But on the other hand we cannot possibly regard the word suggestion as any real answer to the important question how the hypnotic responsiveness is induced, on what conditions it depends.
Within the ordinary range of physiological explanations nothing (I repeat) has as yet been discovered which can guide us to the true nature or exciting causes of this characteristic responsiveness of hypnosis.
