William Herbert Hobbs Quote

Experience has shown that whenever a new and more advanced viewpoint has been gained to take the place of an earlier one, and its superiority has come to be acknowledged, the tendency has always been to sketch in from that one standpoint even the more distant objects, rather than to move forward to new and independent positions.

Characteristics of Existing Glaciers, Introduction (p. 1), The Macmillan Co. 1911