Plasticity is his safety and the means of his progress.

So he grows into the social organization, takes his place as a Socius in the work of the world, and lays deep the sense of values, upon the basis of which his own contributions--if he be destined to make contributions--to the wealth of the world are to be wrought out.

This great fact that he is open to the play of the personal influences which are about him is just the "suggestibleness" which we have already described in an earlier chapter; and the influences themselves are "suggestions"-- social suggestions.

These influences differ in different communities, as we so often remark.

The Turk learns to live in a very different system of relations of "give and take" from ours, and ours differ as much from those of the Chinese.