Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.

Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself.

As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.

Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.

What if it should be God's plan to people the world with better and finer material?

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 terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.

The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.