Charles Lyell Quote

'Time's noblest offspring is the last.' This line of Bp. Berkeley's expresses the real cause of the belief in progress in the animal creation.

Leonard G. Wilson (ed.), Sir Charles Lyell's Scientific Journals on the Species Question (1970)

'Time's noblest offspring is the last.' This line of Bp. Berkeley's expresses the real cause of the belief in progress in the animal creation.

'Time's noblest offspring is the last.' This line of Bp. Berkeley's expresses the real cause of the belief in progress in the animal creation.

'Time's noblest offspring is the last.' This line of Bp. Berkeley's expresses the real cause of the belief in progress in the animal creation.

'Time's noblest offspring is the last.' This line of Bp. Berkeley's expresses the real cause of the belief in progress in the animal creation.