THE SEQUOIA 
theory and practice of medicine, and bacteriological discoveries 
of the past decade have probably done more to alleviate human 
suffering than all the efforts of any previous century. 
In short, every sphere of human activity, social, religious, in- 
dustrial and intellectual, has felt the influence of and has been 
profoundly modified by those marvelous discoveries of science 
which have occurred even since this Sequoia attained gigantic 
proportions. 
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