Occupation: Author Birth: 1847 Death: 1916
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 develo….
Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will asser….
The Anglo-Saxon has established himself in climates totally diverse - Canada, South Africa, and India - and, through several generations, has preserv….
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 ….
What if it should be God's plan to people the world with better and finer material?.
Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East h….
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 uphea….
Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers..
As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed..
There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken..
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 highe….
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 t….
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 ….
There are many in the Church as well as out of it who need to learn that Christianity is neither creed nor a ceremonial, but a life vitaly connected ….
The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center..
The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant..
Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched..
Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster..