American - Clergyman | 1847 - 1916
Furthermore, it is significant that the marked characteristics of this race are being here emphasized most.
Josiah Strong
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Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty.
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Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself.
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Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.
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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.
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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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There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken.
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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 influence to destroy spiritual life and power.
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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.
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We have seen... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth, and we have only begun the development of our vast resources.
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