James Dwight Dana - Corals and coral islands (1872)

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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.

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The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans.

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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 electrical forces, the first and last appeal of ignorance.

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