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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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