That it is not rudimentary in the race is evidenced by the fact that many languages, such as the Celtic, the teutonic, and the Scandinavian, are quite without it.
"Open Water"
Arthur Stringer
During that time she had never given him a kind word, not a loving look, but Peter knew that out of all the fog and obscurity that life might bring to him that Word, sprung though it might be out of teutonic sentiment and Heller's beer, that word, at any rate, was true.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
The earliest teutonic poetry was emotional prose, and only later did definite rules bind it.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell