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.
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For the same reason the saloon, together with the intemperance and the liquor power which it represents, is multiplied in the city.Josiah Strong
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?"
Josiah Strong
There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken.
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Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.
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The mission of the Anglo-Saxon has been largely that of the soldier but the world is making progress, we are leaving behind the barbarism of war as civilization advances, it will learn less of war, and concern itself more with the arts of peace, and for these the massive battle-ax must be wrought into tools of finer temper.
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As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.
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