The almost incomprehensible age of the Earth was famously summarized thus:
“The reſult, therefore, of our preſent enquiry is, that we find no veſtige of a beginning,–no proſpect of an end.”
— Theory of the Earth, James Hutton, 1788
“The reſult, therefore, of our preſent enquiry is, that we find no veſtige of a beginning,–no proſpect of an end.”
— Theory of the Earth, James Hutton, 1788