impressibility
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Spurzheim failed, but covered the ground incorrectly, and it was many years after I discovered cerebral impressibility before I attained a satisfactory view of the psychology of this region.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)
Adam S. Smalley, as told by him, is a fine illustration of impressibility in sleep.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson
Effect of Strong Mental Impression.—A strong mental impression carried into sleep is conducive to impressibility.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson
Thus where the laws and conditions of impressibility are understood, it is not anomalous that so few are impressed, but this fact confirms the theory of sensitiveness.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson
He who is not at all conscious of such impressibility can scarce be amiable or human.
From The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
