Josiah Strong quotes

There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken. (Josiah Strong)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant. View quote
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The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled. View quote
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The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor. View quote
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We have seen... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth, and we have only begun the development of our vast resources. View quote
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As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed. View quote
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Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers. View quote
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Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster. View quote
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Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched. (Josiah Strong)
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. View quote
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The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center. View quote
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Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself. View quote
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There the union of Church and State tends strongly to paralyze some of the members of the body of Christ. Here there is no such influence to destroy spiritual life and power. View quote
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If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the 'survival of the fittest?' View quote
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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. View quote
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What if it should be God's plan to people the world with better and finer material? View quote
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