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Josiah Strong (1847-1916) was an American author and Christian missionary. His works primarily focused on the global spread of Christianity and American expansionism. Strong's book 'Our Country' had a profound impact on American nationalism and imperialism.

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“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 with a loving Christ.”

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Author:Josiah Strong

“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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Book:The New Era: Or, The Coming Kingdom

Source: The New Era: Or, The Coming Kingdom

“The Anglo-Saxon has established himself in climates totally diverse - Canada, South Africa, and India - and, through several generations, has preserved his essential race characteristics. He is not, of course, superior to climatic influences; but even in warm climates, he is likely to retain his aggressive vigor long enough to supplant races already enfeebled.”

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Author:Josiah Strong

“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.”

Nations Wealth Race Development Resources Europe England

Book:Our Country

Source: Our Country

“There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken.”

World Earth Taken Land New World

Book:The New Era: Or, The Coming Kingdom

Source: The New Era: Or, The Coming Kingdom

“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.”

Poor Cities Poverty Rich Greater Riches Elsewhere

Book:Our country: its possible future and its present crisis

Source: Our country: its possible future and its present crisis

“What if it should be God's plan to people the world with better and finer material?”

People Ifs World Should Plans Materials What If God's Plan

Book:Our Country

Source: Our Country

“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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“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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Book:The New Era: Or, The Coming Kingdom

Source: The New Era: Or, The Coming Kingdom

“The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.”

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Book:Our Country

Source: Our Country

“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.”

Men Needs Writing Firsts May Two Light Christian Spiritual Liberty Christianity Mankind Civilization Pure Highest Arguing Civil Liberties

Book:Our Country

Source: Our Country

“Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.”

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Book:Our Country, Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis

Source: Our Country, Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis

“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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Book:Our Country, Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis

Source: Our Country, Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis

“Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.”

Disaster Distress Great Business

Author:Josiah Strong

“As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.”

Book:Our Country

Source: Our Country

“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.”

May Two Ideas States United United States Development Britain Significance Great Idea Great Britain Anglo Saxon Exponents

Book:Our Country

Source: Our Country

“The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.”

Cities Serious Civilization Attraction Immigrants Peculiar Menace

Book:Our Country

Source: Our Country

“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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Book:Our Country, Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis

Source: Our Country, Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis

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Born: 1847
Died: 1916
Known for: Author
Quotes: 18

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