one of those questions that on 2009-2015 twitter probably would have rustled up an expert: what is the history of referring to certain materials as "humble"? reading a book on commodities where the ~humility~ of various minerals gets invoked a lot, curious when/how that language became commonplace. Is it a Bible thing? Feels like maybe a Bible thing
Etymology suggests that humble as a word traces back to "lowly" as in literally "on the ground" (the same origin as the word humus), so it may have begun as an explicit statement of how materials like sand and salt are literally "of the earth"
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IMO sand is NOT humble though, have you ever been to a beach sand loves to get into EVERYONE'S business and also clothes
@ingrid new sense of "humble bundle" just dropped.