field-plodder

Updated: February 25, 2026

The discoverer of that day will get from some older planet information millions of years ahead of our own. As the dull mind of the field-plodder now looks toward the great cities toward the vast movement outside his own little life so shall men look away from this little, limited, but by that time well regulated, planet, to the mysteries and the grandeurs of the worlds outside.

Arthur Brisbane - Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers