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 a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.

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

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

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.

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 up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and, second, civil liberty.

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.