The neutralizing power then, is not that of the flowing of any sort of energy, but the rigidity, or inertia of the medium through which the energy has to make its way; thus bringing us back to rouah and hoshech, the expansive and Compressive principles of the opening verses of Genesis.
"The Law and the Word"
Thomas Troward
When a sample breaks, the difference between the portions of the fracture which have been subject to tensile and Compressive strains can easily be seen.
"Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II"
Joshua Rose
This extraordinary sequence of events has been determined by the events of detrital denudation acting along with certain general conditions which have all along involved the growth of Compressive stresses in the surface crust of the Earth.
"The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays"
J. (John) Joly