Beauty was believed to afford at least some glimpse of a transcendental existence. This goes far to explain the humanist cult of beauty and makes plain that humanism was, above everything else, fundamentally an aesthetic movement. Human experience, man himself, tended to become the practical measure of all things.
Serpentine is the âbrand nameâ for a group of polymorphous rocks within the serpentine group; these rocks are sometimes called serpentinite. Polymorphous means that the rocks have the same chemical compound with the molecules arranged differently.
The most common form of serpentine is called Chrysotile and forms in cylindrical crystals that double back on themselves, forming long threads of asbestos within the rock. This type of serpentine is used primarily for the asbestos fibers due to their fire resistance and flexibility. Chrysotile is mined in New York, New Jersey, and other areas along the Appalachian Mountains, California, Arizona, and Quebec near the town named Asbestos.