"The reproach that it was impossible to look at a mountain through a microscope was brought forward in opposition to the new departure which he [Sorby] advocated. Well did he reply by anticipation to this objection. "Some geologists, only to examine large masses in the field, may perhaps be disposed to question the value of the facts I have described, and to think the objects so minute as to be quite beneath their notice, and that all attempts at accurate calculations from such small data are quite inadmissible. What other science, however, has prospered by proposing such a creed? ...I ague that there is no necessary connection between the size of an object and the value of the fact, and that, though the objects I describe are minute, the conclusions to be derived from the facts are great.""

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