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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.