mote-and-pebble

Updated: May 11, 2025

Accordingly, setting out from the mote-and-pebble extreme, you find, that, up to a certain point, increasing values of thought are commonly indicated by increasing gravity, by more and more of state-paper weightiness; but beyond this the rule is reversed, and lightness becomes the sign and measure of excellence.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862