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> [Mount Shasta - a vision of immensity such as pertains to the vast universe rather than to our own planet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-dwight-dana/mount-shasta-a-vision-of-immensity-such-as-pertains-to-the-vast/)

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## More by James Dwight Dana

> [Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt a favorite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-dwight-dana/geology-is-rapidly-taking-its-place-as-an-introduction-to-the-higher/)

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> [Mount Shasta - a vision of immensity such as pertains to the vast universe rather than to our own planet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-dwight-dana/mount-shasta-a-vision-of-immensity-such-as-pertains-to-the-vast/)

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> [ Are coral reefs growing from the depths of the oceans? ... \[The\] reply is a simple negative; and a single fact establishes its truth.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-dwight-dana/are-coral-reefs-growing-from-the-depths-of-the-oceans-the-reply-is-a/)

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> [The coral zoophyte may be leveled by transported masses swept over by the waters; yet like the trodden sod, it sprouts again, and continues…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-dwight-dana/the-coral-zoophyte-may-be-leveled-by-transported-masses-swept-over-by/)

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> [The grand old Book of God still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the more it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-dwight-dana/the-grand-old-book-of-god-still-stands-and-this-old-earth-the-more/)

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> [For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped scoops of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-dwight-dana/for-nine-miles-along-a-submerged-ridge-the-corals-rise-in-lumpy/)

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> [A map of the moon... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more complete or more magnificent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-dwight-dana/a-map-of-the-moon-should-be-in-every-geological-lecture-room-for-no/)

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> [Science, while it penetrates deeply the system of things about us, sees everywhere, in the dim limits of vision, the word mystery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-dwight-dana/science-while-it-penetrates-deeply-the-system-of-things-about-us-sees/)

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> [There can be no real conflict between the two Books of the Great Author. Both are revelations made by Him to man,-the earlier telling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-dwight-dana/there-can-be-no-real-conflict-between-the-two-books-of-the-great/)

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> [“In using the present in order to reveal the past, we assume that the forces in the world are essentially the same through all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-dwight-dana/in-using-the-present-in-order-to-reveal-the-past-we-assume-that-the/)

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> [The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-dwight-dana/the-profoundest-facts-in-the-earth-s-history-prove-that-the-oceans/)

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> [Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral islands with their groves,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-dwight-dana/most-agreeable-are-the-memories-of-events-and-labours-connected-with/)

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> [Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have talked of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-dwight-dana/some-writers-rejecting-the-idea-which-science-had-reached-that-reefs/)

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> [Mr Hall's hypothesis has its cause for subsidence, but none for the lifting of the thickened sunken crust into mountains. It is a theory…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-dwight-dana/mr-hall-s-hypothesis-has-its-cause-for-subsidence-but-none-for-the/)

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