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 only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign. — 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
