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.

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.

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

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

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

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