Josiah Strong
He was a Protestant Clergyman, born in 1847 in Illinois, and died in 1916. He wanted to use Protestant principles to fix the problems of industrialization, urbanization, and immigration. His most well known work is the essay Our Country. In it, he expressed his views that it is the Anglo-Saxon's (white American's) duty to assimilate the other lesser races into itself, and created a pure, christian, Anglo-Saxon world. He believed that immigration was increasing the problem of other races, and that it would slow down the assimilation into the Anglo-Saxons.
"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." - Josiah Strong "The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant." - Josiah Strong |
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