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1 In proportion as the parts of an individual, or a compound body, are in contact 2 over a greater or less superficies, they will with greater or less difficulty 3 admit of being moved from their position; consequently the individual will, with 4 greater or less difficulty, be brought to assume another form. Those bodies, 5 whose parts are in contact over large superficies, are called hard; those, whose 6 parts are in contact over small superficies, are called soft; those, whose parts 7 are in motion among one another, are called fluid. 8 9