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.
From Josiah Strong
As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.
Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible 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.
There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken.
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?'
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.
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.
Furthermore, it is significant that the marked characteristics of this race are being here emphasized most.
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