• 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: 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 (1891). “Our Country, Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis”