Word: californianism
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...CALIFORNIAN...
...wondering where you got the idea (TIME, Sept. 5, p.8) that the name of the Governor of California is Charles, and I am wondering still more why no loyal Californian has written to you as yet to tell you that his name is Clement...
Scientifically Audubon is out of date now. As an observer of contemporary customs nd scenery he is ageless. No Californian will read his description of an earthquake on the Kentucky barrens without a shudder of recognition. No rifleman but will be excited by his careful account of how Kentuckians, for practice, drove nails and snuffed candles with their bullets; how Daniel Boone "barked" squirrels, hitting the limb under their chins to stun, not mash them. Florida land-boomers may read how Mr. Audubon struggled through primeval subdivisions in a hurricane. The odd naturalist, "Monsieur de T.," slaying bats...
...that 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...
...chief offender who has tried to debauch the fair name of Florida seems to be the Associated Press. Insidiously, craftily--like Californian spies--it took advantage of the coma which was Florida's until she had dug herself out, and blatantly shrieked a tale of ruin. With foul intent the newspapers urged relief funds and salvage societies. But Florida refused to be quarantined. Life is still Olympian at Coral Gables. The Marx brothers can still sell lots...