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

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

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

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

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Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty.

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

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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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