We are almost the last Posterity of the first Men, and faln [sic] into the dying Age of the World; by what footsteps, or by what guide, we trace back our way to those first Ages, and the first order of things?


The Sacred Theory of the Earth (1691), reprint 1965

Thomas Burnet Quotes

We are almost the last Posterity of the first Men, and faln [sic] into the dying Age of the World; by what footsteps, or by what guide, we trace back ...

We are almost the last Posterity of the first Men, and faln [sic] into the dying Age of the World; by what footsteps, or by what guide, we trace back ...

We are almost the last Posterity of the first Men, and faln [sic] into the dying Age of the World; by what footsteps, or by what guide, we trace back ...

We are almost the last Posterity of the first Men, and faln [sic] into the dying Age of the World; by what footsteps, or by what guide, we trace back ...