“Lessing here is laying her own claim to immortality through the immutability of her creations.”

“Sansovino, and some of his employers as well, would surely have known that herms could signify the immutability of the boundaries of Rome.”

“One might add other properties he accepted, such as homogeneity, immutability, and continuity, and probably impenetrability.”

“Still, for all this immutableness, was there some lack of common consistency about worthy Captain Bildad.”

“To truth, justice, love, the attributes of the soul, the idea of immutableness is essentially associated.”