Word: sequoia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...science now possesses tends to favor belief in Immortality; that there is nothing necessarily shocking to practical intelligence about Immortality. By Immortality I mean what the spiritualists mean, persistence of the undefined 'Soul' after physical death. A little illogicality, I cite the 4,000-year-old Californian sequoia trees as suggestive of a possible afterlife for that part of man which is separate from his body. Then I switch to religion, saying that I believe Christ, Buddha, Confucius and Mohammed to have had greater influence on mankind than any material scientist. I qualify my regard for Mohammed...
...giant Sequoia tree in California, 5,000 years old, 32 feet in diameter, 280 feet high?next in size and age to the famous General Sherman Tree?was named Warren Harding Tree as a memorial to the late President...
...dwellings in the Mesa Verde National Park have been found quite as interesting, while the great ranges about Mount Rainer are thought to compare favorably with the Swiss Alps. As for the animal life in the Yellowstone, the majestic pageant of the Grand Canyon, the giant groves in the Sequoia, Europe can nowhere offer parallels. The Harvard trip, in touring this western country, will not only give its explorers a suggestion of the extent and resources of their country but prove to them that Americans can go abroad in their own backyard...
...next point on the itinerary is the Yosemite National Park, where the party will be conducted to the Upper and Lower Yosemite Fall, the highest cascade in the world. At the Sequoia Park the travelers will pass through the grove of giant trees and from there will proceed to the Grand Canyon and the Mesa Verde National Park, to inspect the cliff dwellings...