Yet I think it must be a dull and churlish nature which would wish to refuse the gentle contemporaneity offered by the unaging antiquity at Hampton Court.
"London Films"
W.D. Howells
When we find contemporaneity alleged on the strength of a community no greater than that which sometimes exists between strata of widely-different ages in the same country, it seems as though the above-quoted caution had been forgotten.
"Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I"
Herbert Spencer
Even supposing, however, that districts some hundreds of miles apart, furnished groups of strata which completely agreed in their order of superposition, their mineral characters, and their fossils, we should still have inadequate proof of contemporaneity.
"Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I"
Herbert Spencer