"If I read not amiss, this powerful race……" — Josiah Strong
"If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the survival of the fittest?"
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Josiah Strong
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24 Quotes by Josiah Strong
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In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be…
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Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United…
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The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center,
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It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that…
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Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.
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Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more…
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Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.
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As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.
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It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon…
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The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.
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Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded…
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There are many in the Church as well as out of it who need to learn that Christianity is neither…
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I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
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