Legal systems are not static; they evolve over time.

Among thousands of people, you meet those you've met. Through thousands of years, across the boundless wilderness of time, you happen to meet them, neither earlier nor a bit too late. There is nothing to be said except to ask lightly, "Oh, you're here too?"

By the help of microscopes, there is nothing so small as to escape our inquiry; hence there is a new visible world discovered to the understanding.