The Eskimos afford a striking illustration of the fact that a germ of taste for ornamentation in general is an earlier manifestation of the esthetic faculty than the appreciation of personal beauty; for while displaying considerable skill and ingenuity in the decorations of their clothes, canoes, and weapons, they mutilate their persons in various ways and allow them to be foul and malodorous with the filth of years.

It may not be widespread, and it certainly hardly exists above the working classes, yet I feel that the germ is thereand who can say how far it is doomed to flourish, or whether it will die away....

The germ of this tenure was the right of private taxation over certain districts, granted by the Norman duke to his barons and warriors as the reward for their help in battle.

" However old the germs of the stories are, the form in which we have them hardly antedates the year 1450.

The germ of the "Morse system," as jotted down in the 1832 sketch-book, is the basic principle of the universal telegraph of to-day.

The germ of this poem was four lines composed as a part of the verses on the 'Highland Girl'.

But if religion, as now understood among men, be the latest evolutionary form of a series of mistakes, fallacies, and illusions, if its germ be a blunder, and its present form only the result of progressive but unessential refinements on that blunder, the inference that religion is untruethat nothing actual corresponds to its hypothesisis very easily drawn.

And the germ of each organized being bequeathes to its offspring the power to reproduce its likeness,so that each succeeding generation is a repetition of its predecessor.

But all the same, that germ from Siberia is a wily thief and steals lives by the thousands, in spite of all precautions.