"Contemporaneity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... identical with European species, or very nearly allied to them," Sir C. Lyell says it is "highly probable the Claiborne beds agree in age with the central or Bracklesham group of England." 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. It appears to ...
— Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I • Herbert Spencer |
