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

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.

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

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

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.

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