nitrogenic

Updated: May 20, 2025

I thought: Here am I, capable of teaching him much concerning the field wherein he labours the nitrogenic why of the fertilizer, the alchemy of the sun, the microscopic cell-structure of the plant, the cryptic chemistry of root and runner but thereat he straightened his work-wearied back and rested. His eyes wandered over what he had produced in the sweat of his brow, then on to mine.

Jack London - Revolution, and Other Essays