The last of the race: the growth of a myth from Milton to Darwin

Abstract

Betwixt the world destroyed and the world restored - Milton and the universal rack the first last man? - Thomas Burnet and the revolution in time towards the last of the race - Robinson Cursoe sole survivor the last bards shortliv'd foliage is the race of man - the last of the race and the natural world strength in what remains behind - Wordsworth and the last of the race as the last of my race I must wither away - the 6th Lord Byron the last men new ideas of race - The Last of the Mohicans Edward Bulwer and the Terror of History the last chapter - after Darwin.