Josiah Strong Quotes

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• In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a…
• Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself.
• The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center,
• It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted…
• Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.
• Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.
• Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.
• As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.
• 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 having…
• The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.
• 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…
• There are many in the Church as well as out of it who need to learn that Christianity is neither creed nor a ceremonial, but…
• The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe…
• The Anglo-Saxon has established himself in climates totally diverse - Canada, South Africa, and India - and, through several generations, has preserved his essential race…
• Furthermore, it is significant that the marked characteristics of this race are being here emphasized most.
• Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty.
• 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…
• The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the…
• There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken.
• There the union of Church and State tends strongly to paralyze some of the members of the body of Christ. Here there is no such…

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