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.
Romaine or cos lettuce is a variety of lettuce (Lactuca sativa L. var.longifolia) that grows in a tall head of sturdy leaves with firm ribs down their centers.ther authorities trace it to the Arabic word for lettuce, Ø®Ø³ khus ([Ëxus]). It apparently reached the West via Rome, as in Italian it is called lattuga romana and in French laitue romaine, both meaning 'Roman lettuce', hence the name 'romaine', the common term in North American English.