" Froebel calls activity of sense and limb "the first germ," and "play-building and modelling the tender blossoms of the constructive impulse"; and this, he says, is "the moment when man is to be prepared for future industry, diligence and productive activity."

And some of them led her into their gardens to show her their flowers, and to tell her how they had begun to study and learn how colors were changed and form perfected, and the secrets of the growth and of the germ, of which they had been ignorant.

I do not remember whether it was Lizzy's early contributions to "The Youth's Companion," showing already the germ of the creative power in her, or her letters to her sister, which first suggested to me that the pleasure her friends found in her conversation might yet be enjoyed by those who would never see her.

The student of art may, therefore, now enjoy the pleasure of tracing sculpturesque or pictorial motives from their genesis in some rude fragment to their final development in the master-works of a Lionardo or a Raphael, where scientific grouping of figures, higher idealisation of style, the suggestion of freer movement, and more varied dramatic expression yield at last the full flower that the simple germ enfolded.

What is more, they reveal in germ the qualities that marked her style in its maturity.

All that the supreme artist wants is what Charlotte Brontë called "the germ of the real", by which she meant the germ of the actual.

All that the supreme artist wants is what Charlotte Brontë called "the germ of the real", by which she meant the germ of the actual.

Charlotte Brontë said that the character of Dr. John was a failure because it lacked the germ of the real.

She should have said that it lacked the germ of many reals; it is so obviously drawn from incomplete observation of a single instance.

" To a mind like that the germ of the actual was enough.

And here is the first sketch or germ of "The Old Stoic": Give we the hills our equal prayer, Earth's breezy hills and heaven's blue sea, I ask for nothing further here Than my own heart and liberty.

germ of the, 138, 145, 158. Realism, 163, 221, 231.

He did, however, live to see not only the germ of a nation emerge from chaos, but also the framework of an organization for governing it well or ill.

Organical form, again, is innate; it unfolds itself from within, and requires its determination contemporaneously with the perfect development of the germ.

And thus the original germ of this wonderful growth of caprice and love came into being.

It is the germ of all democracy, the highest fact in the domain of the popular.

"It ought to be a great satisfaction to us to know what sort of germ is at the bottom of our woes.

Its germ has been virulently developed in modern cultures from the uncomplex bacillus isolated sixty years ago by the late William Makepeace Thackeray.

ZWOLLE (25), a manufacturing town in the Dutch province of Oberyssel, 50 m. NE. of Amsterdam; close to it is Agnetenberg, famous as the seat of the monastery where Thomas à Kempis lived and died. ZYME, name of a germ presumed to be the cause of zymotic diseases.

To them the garden was work, not play as it should have been; so they failed to gain that contact with mother earth which gives inspiration as well as health; they failed to acquire a love of nature, became infected with the germ of gregariousness, preferred the glare of lights, the rush of hurrying crowds, and lost the relish for fresh air and quiet.

" Therein lurks the germ of anarchism,for if evil, why should governments be necessary?

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

It is not easy to say what were the "four lines composed as a part of the verses on the 'Highland Girl'" which the Fenwick note tells us was "the germ of this poem."

This suited the landowners, who dreaded a Land Tax, for might not a Land Tax contain the germ of that nightmare of the larger colonial landownerthe Single Tax?

The baby is a beast,a very soft, tender, caressive beast,a beast full of promise,a beast with the germ of an angel,but a beast still.