I have sought in vain for any explanation of these facts, except the obvious one, that the air contains germs competent to give rise to Bacteria, such as those with which the first solution has been knowingly and purposely inoculated, and to the mould-Fungi.

If the neck of the flask is drawn out into a tube and bent downwards; and if, after the contained fluid has been carefully boiled, the tube is heated sufficiently to destroy any germs which may be present in the air which enters as the fluid cools, the apparatus may be left to itself for any time and no life will appear in the fluid.

But even when they came back alive they carried with them the germs of death, and another hecatomb ensued, another sacrifice to the monstrous god of social egotism.

Two teaspoonfuls of this substance will make a solution strong enough to kill all disease germs.

And yet withal, those songs, and the effect which they produced, showed that in these poor creatures, too, lay the germs of pathos, taste, melody, soft and noble affections.

In the 1st Quarto we find the germ of the passageunrepresented in the 2nd, developed in the Folio.

Italy, who after many difficulties had developed in her famous but too narrow territory the germs of a greater fortune, has had, together with very heavy losses in men, heavy losses in her wealth.

After having dispersed some rebellious meetings and stifled the germs of an insurrection, Caesar believed that the summer would pass without any serious war.

In the case of almost every one of these diseases we have discovered the specific germ and are able to demonstrate its presence, either by its microscopical appearance, by its behavior on contact with certain stains, or by the forms that cultures of it assume.

John Milton was one of the representative men of the Puritans of the seventeenth century,men who colonized New England, and planted the germs of institutions which have spread to the Rocky Mountains, Cromwell on his farm, one of the landed gentry, had a Cambridge education, and was early an influential man.

This river meandered through the lonesome country, bearing cholera germs within its waters.

For a large proportion of criminalsthe percentage has yet to be determined, although the most recent police commissioner of Chicago has estimated it at ninety per centpunishment for a period of time and then letting him go free is like imprisoning a diphtheria carrier for a while and then permitting him to commingle with his fellows and spread the germ of diphtheria.

Vagrant birds unconsciously deposit the germs of various other productions of the vegetable kingdom, which in due season spring up and clothe their surfaces with verdure; and the natural accumulation of dead and putrid vegetation serves to assist in the formation of a rich and productive soil, and to increase the altitudes of these new creations.

In early life she showed the germs of that vigour and energy of character for which she was afterwards so distinguished.

Those who take the former view (confounding, as Mr. Mivart well points out in his Genesis of Species, "material" and "formal" morality) have no difficulty in tracing the germs of the highest human morality in animals; for self-interest is, in their eyes, the ultimate ground of morality, and the average animal is utterly selfish.

like Wolsey and Bacon, "Never to rise again!" It is no sin to hope that the All-seeing eye discerned in those noble undertakings and beneficent results the germ of wings that shall one day bear him back to light and mercy.

This was in January of 1850, and I am driven to curiosity as to the subsequent career of the young German savant, who in that state of American political evolution was capable of drawing the horoscope of a nation, as it has been in recent times fulfilled; who saw in the crude notions of political economy of that prosperous yesterday the germs of the political blunders and errors of to-day.

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

(c) Taking certain germs in through the mouth in eating or drinking.

" There are only five ways of catching disease: (a) Getting certain germs on the body by touching some one or something which has them on it.

Moreover, the extirpation of one disease after another, the careful isolation of all infectious cases, and the destruction of every article that could preserve or convey the poisonous germs, has in the course of ages enabled us utterly to destroy them.

Some people seem to have given them at the outset a mere germ of personality like this, which must needs widen itself out in like fashion to be felt at all.

Of a situation having in itself the germs of a solution, she apparently had not the remotest conception.

Her belief was iron; she dared not let it go; yet somewhere underneath there lurked the germ of a wholesome revulsion.

To unfold the springing germs of genius, to direct them in the path of general happiness, is an employment by no means unworthy of a philosopher.