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Mental impressibility is dependent upon intellectual organs, which feel the influences of mind.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)

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 must have the impressibility of the poetical nature to take in all its scenes, and the vocabulary of an artist to reproduce them.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 by Various

A moderate degree of impressibility which is almost universal in the South, belongs to more than half in the North.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)

Our system of Anthropology relies, for its demonstration, upon human impressibility.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)