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.

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

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

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.

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

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.