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 poured their surplus populations.

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

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

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

The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.

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

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.