Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations. — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus. — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of… — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
We have seen... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth,… — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
Furthermore, it is significant that the marked characteristics of this race are being here emphasized most. — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
There the union of Church and State tends strongly to paralyze some of the members of the body of Christ. Here there is no… — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant. — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities… — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are… — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself. — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East… — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be… — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in… — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
