Few of us are so healthy in mind but that we have to recognize a germ or two and apply a disinfectant before we can reach the freedom that will enable us to shed the germs unconsciously.
In the Church itself there were germs out of which a military spirit would naturally develop itself.
Is this not the same notion of an anonymous and diffused force, the germs of which we recently found in the totemism of Australia?
The actors have their bodies covered with down, which is detached and flies away during these movements; this is a way of representing the flight of these mystic germs and their dispersion into space.
But it has been sufficient for us to show that totemism contained the germs of this religion; we have had no need of following out its development.
The kangaroo germs thus escaping from the rock are not visible, so they are not made out of the same substance as the kangaroos which we see.
The grains of this very holy dust are regarded as so many germs of life; each of them contains a spiritual principle which will give birth to a new being, when introduced into an organism of the same species.
So it is only natural that one should use this blood and the mystic germs which it carries to assure the regular reproduction of the totemic species.
The movement which is acted the most frequently consists in twisting the entire body about rhythmically and violently; this is because the ancestor did the same thing to make the germs of life which were in him come out.
A complete analysis of the categories should seek these germs of rationality even in the individual consciousness.
It is this double nature which has enabled religion to be like the womb from which come all the leading germs of human civilization.
Now we see the sense in which we may say that the Intichiuma contains the germs of the sacrificial system.
Though considering totemism only a system of magic, Frazer recognizes that the first germs of a real religion are sometimes found in it (Fortn.
At the same time, he sowed upon his route living germs which were disengaged from his body and, after many successive reincarnations, became the actual members of the clan.
He realized more clearly than any of his predecessors how rich this crude and confused religion is in germsfor the future.
From the sacred rocks possessed by his clan he takes those germs of life which lie dormant there, and scatters them into space.
In these, however, a rich abundance of remarkable vestiges and precious germs of divine truth were mixed up with Bacchanalian rites and immoral mysteries.
Such matters do but furnish the necessary circumstances for hatching the germs or ova which are present in such immense numbers in the atmosphere.
By means of the boiling heat, every thing living and all the germs in the flask or in the tubes were destroyed, and all access was cut off by the sulphuric acid on the one side, and by the potash on the other.
The bacterium may be defined as a microscopic vegetable organism; or it may be called an animal organism; for in the deep-down life of germs there is not much difference between vegetable and animal--perhaps no difference at all.
It was held that fermentation is not dependent upon living organisms, and that fermentation may be excited in substances from which all living germs have been excluded.
He began to investigate the diseased tissue of animals, and was rewarded with the discovery of the germs from which the disease had come.
To attribute to each individual, not only the responsibility of his acts, but the origin of the evil germs which exist in his soul, is the untenable proposition of a desperate individualism.
Not a few of the ablest reformers wish to see them thrive; royalists, like Samarin and Cherkaski, and republicans, like Herzen and Ogareff, see in these village societies the germs of a new civilization for East and West.
The solution is harmless to healthy eyes, and, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, destroys infecting germs when they are present.
While ophthalmia neonatorum is often the result of the social evil, the introduction of other pus-producing germs into the eyes at birth is responsible for a large number of cases.
In the midst of her favorable circumstances she was nursing the germs of an insidious disease which rendered her heart weaker and weaker.
Some were filled with melancholy, and some were sullen, while despondency sent germs of slow death into other minds.
The carcass of this dead spirit unburied we shall drag through the church for ages, and the germs of disease arising therefrom will bring more death into the ranks of our foes than all our weapons of warfare ever did.
The germs of our literature, rooted in human soil and growing secretly beneath the surface, shall spread throughout the world and come to fruitage in the light of every clime.
During those years the spirit of earnest inquiry into the germs and early developments of existing institutions has become more and more active and universal; and the merited celebrity of M.
We had then no Indian or Colonial Empire save the feeble germs of our North American settlements, which Raleigh and Gilbert had recently planted.
Arab conquest in Western Europe, rescued Christendom from Islam, preserved the relics of ancient and the germs of modern civilization, and re-established the old superiority of the Indo-European over the Semitic family of mankind.
Two typical examples of the offensive follow: The Scotsman says: 'The crowded benches of the Ministerialists contain the germs of disintegration.
In this passage, we are well rid of the germs before we hear of the sling, and the mixture of metaphors is quite imaginary.
From their further conversation I learned that the subject under discussion was anti-tetanus serum--the all-important inoculation that prevents lockjaw and is also an antidote for the germs of gas gangrene.
I had learned from doctors its fatal and horrible results and I also had learned from them that it was caused by germs which exist in large quantities in any ground that has been under artificial cultivation for a long period.
It is more than I can understand how you ever endured your musty, fusty, dusty rooms with the filth and disease germs of whole generations stored in the woolen and hair fabrics that furnished them.
A seven-mile drive is apt to promote or kill the germs of intimacy, and on the way over she had been conscious of enjoying herself.
Already the germs of a plan for the disposition of his large property were sprouting in his mind to provide him with a refuge from despondency.
The blood-serum in which I had grown the germs fell upon his hands.
The house-physician at the hospital had not broken the actual truth to him--the truth that, infected with such deadly germs he was doomed to death.
Agnew had only told him thegerms would probably make him very ill for awhile.
Microscopic examination shows the first to be free from germs of any kind, while the second is swarming with various forms of bacteria.
The fluid should now be boiled so as to kill any germs that may be in it; and while hot, one of the vessels should be securely stopped up with a plug of cotton wool, and the other left open.
By these precautions foreign germs will be avoided, which otherwise may interfere seriously with the growth of the young slime moulds.
The germs of many such diseases have been isolated, and experiments prove beyond doubt that these are alone the causes of the diseases in question.
The Belgians, according to Dumouriez's plan, were to conquer Belgium for us; for thegerms of revolt had been but imperfectly stifled in these provinces, and were destined to bud again at the step of the first French soldier.
The empress of Russia adhered to the aggression of the powers against France, and marched her troops into Poland, to repress the germs of the same principles that were to be combated at Paris.
They secretly fomented the germs of insurrection at the nightly meetings of the slaves.
An uninterrupted line of development leads from the French romantic school to the Parnassians, and all the germs of the aberrations which confront us in full expansion among the latter can be distinguished in the former.
Rossetti’s Blessed Damozel is not based upon the scientific knowledge of his time, but upon a mist of undeveloped germs of ideas in constant mutual strife.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "germs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
