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Indeed, many of them themselves would, it seems, be extremely doubtful with regard to the plasticity imputed by them to human nature, if it were not for a theory of society which is not peculiar to socialism.
This "gelatinous flint" is supposed to retain a considerable degree of plasticity long after the granitic mixture has acquired a low temperature. Occasionally we find the quartz and feldspar mutually imprinting their forms on each other, affording evidence of the simultaneous crystallisation of both.
He believed that law was static, but none knew better its plasticity; that it was infallible, but none so well as he could find a text on either side. His reputation was not of the popular, newspaper sort, but was known to connoisseurs, editors, financiers, statesmen and judges, to those, in short, whose business it is to make themselves familiar with the instruments of power.
Firmness of character should on these terrible occasions be turned inside out, and be formed into a plasticity of intellect which finds at once its inspiration and its courage in the adoption of novel expedients. The courage of the heart will let no expedient of the ingenuity be left untried.
To obtain perfect specimens the mould must be shattered. If the body does not yet fill the hollow, the inhabitant clings desperately to it, wedging itself with wonderful plasticity into odd corners and against niches, resisting to the last efforts at eviction.
In technical workmanship Andrea proved himself an able craftsman, modelling marble with the plasticity of wax, and lavishing patterns of the most refined invention. Yet the decorative prodigality of this master corresponded to the frigid and stylistic graces of the neo-Latin poets. It was so much mannerism adopted without real passion from the antique, and applied with a rhetorical intention.
No man will ever doubt the plasticity, the "viscosity" of ice, as it used to be styled in the old glacier controversies, who has passed over the "rubber" ice that forms under certain circumstances and at certain seasons on these rivers. We would never, I am sure, have attempted that ice had not William been with us. We would have struck a blow with the axe and declared it unsafe.
Muscles as organs of the will, of character and even of thought The muscular virtues Fundamental and accessory muscles and functions The development of the mind and of the upright position Small muscles as organs of thought School lays too much stress upon these Chorea vast numbers of automatic movements in children Great variety of spontaneous activities Poise, control and spurtiness Pen and tongue wagging Sedentary school life vs free out-of-door activities Modern decay of muscles, especially in girls Plasticity of motor habits at puberty.
References: The following books will be found helpful: "The Training of the Human Plant," by Burbank; "The Right of the Child to be well born," by Dawson; "Being Well Born," by Guyer. If these are available, they may be circulated through the parents' library. Prolonged Infancy and the Long Period of Plasticity in the Infant Make Training and Education Possible
It recalls one of those enchanted flasks of the magii from which on opening smoke exhales that gradually shapes itself into fantastic and fearsome figures. This Polonaise at no time exhibits the solidity of its two predecessors; its plasticity defies the imprint of the conventional Polonaise, though we ever feel its rhythms.
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