" A part how small of the terraqueous globe
Is tenanted by man! the rest a waste,
Rocks, deserts, frozen seas and burning sands,
Wild haunts of monsters, poisons, stings, and death.
Such is earth’s melancholy map!  But, far
More sad, this earth is a true map of man. "

― Robert Southey , Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society