Ah but, strangely enough, we do find one great branch of the race--the Teutons--unacquainted with the word _potato._ You may argue that the French are too: but luckily, Science has the seeing eye; Science is not to be cheated by appearances. The French say _pomme de terre;_ but this is evidently only a corruption--_potater, pomdeter_--twisted at some late period by false analogy into _pomme de terre,_ ('apple of the earth'.) But the Teuton has _kartoffel,_ utterly different; argal again, the Teutons must have separated from the parent stem before the Aryans had discovered that the thing was edible and worth naming. They, therefore, were the first to leave Virginia: paddle their own canoes off to far-away Deutschland before ever the mild Hindoo set out for Hindustan, the Greek for Greece, or the Anglo-Saxon for Anglo-Saxony. But even the Teutons have the word _tobacco._ Come now, what a light we have here thrown on the primitive civilization of our forefathers! They knew, it seems, the virtures of the weed or ever they had boiled or fried a single murphy; they smoked first, and only ate long afterwards: and the Germans who led that first expedition out from the fatherland of the race, must have gone with full tobacco-pouches and empty lunch-bags. What a life-like picture rises before our eyes! These first Aryans were a dreamy contemplative people; tobacco was the main item in their lives, the very basis of their civilization.--Then presently, after the Teutons had gone, someone must have let his pipe go out for a few minutes--long enought to discover that he was hungry, and that a fair green plant was growing at his door, with a succulent tuber at the root of it which one could EAT. Think of the joy, the wonder, of that momentous discovery! Did he hide it away, lest others should be as happy as himself? Were ditectives set to watch him, to spy out the cause of a habit of sleek rotundity that was growing upon him at last visibly? We shall never know. Or did he call in his neighbors at once and annouce it? Did someone ask: 'What shall we name this God-given thing?'--and did another reply: 'It looks to me like a _potato;_ let's call it that!'? That at least must have been how it came by it name. They received the suggestion with acclamations: and all future out-going expeditions took sacks of it with them; and their descendants have continued to call it _potato_ to this day. For you must not that being the only food with a name common to all the languages--or almost all --it must be supposed to have been the only food they knew of before their separation. Even the words for _father, mother, fire, water,_ and the like, have a greater number of different roots in the Aryan languages than have these blessed two.