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What if it should be God's plan to people the world with better and finer material?
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There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken.
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The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.
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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.
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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.
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Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign.
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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.
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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.
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Furthermore, it is significant that the marked characteristics of this race are being here emphasized most.
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The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.
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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.
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Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty.
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Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.
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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.
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