t seems to me that God à is here training the Anglo-Saxon race for an hour sure to come in the World's future à 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 a new stage of its history ù the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled. Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States will assert itself. Then this race of unequalled energy, with all the majesty of numbers and the might of wealth behind it ù the representative à of the largest liberty, the purest Christianity, and the highest civilization ù having developed peculiarly aggressive traits calculated to impress its institutions upon mankind, will spread itself over the earth. And can anyone doubt that the result of this competition of the races will be the survival of the fittest.
Strong was not content with the above statement. He also stated that:
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