1-150-581 - The Cartoon Collector/Heritage-Images

'Chronology', 1869. Ever since the geologist, Sir Charles Lyell, had proposed in the 1830s that the world was much older than had previously been supposed, the debate had raged about how established biblical belief could be brought to accord with new scientific findings. Some found such a compromise difficult to make. From Punch, or the London Charivari, December 4, 1869.