Arizona republican., 1903-11-07
World Problems and Who
 Shall Settle Them
PROPHETIC UTTERANCES
Lecture of President Wheeler of Berkeley University at First II. E. Church Last Nisht-A Masterly Ad- dress-Large Attendance.

That the announced lecture nf pr. Benjamin Ide Wheeler president of the 1 University of California, was an event fully appreciated by Phoenix people was proved last night, when the seat 1 irg capacity of the First Methodist church was taxed to accommodate the large audience that assembled to hear
 him. His manner of speech is delib- crate, and his presence impressive. and although he spoke without manuscript or notes his language was faultless | and his ideas were arranged in a most orderly way His subject, The Char acteristics of Great Nationalities,' was sober and serious one, but he i'm l proved frequent opportunities for the relation of delightfully."- humorous incl
 dents illustrating character types of the various races under discussion as the lecture proceeded. At the con
 clusion of his address he was greeted by most generous applause.
 In the pulpit were seated seated be- side Dr. Wheeler. Governor Brodie. Chaplain Winfield Scott, chancellor of the University of Arizona; Rev. pr. 1 Halsey and Rev. Gibbons. Dr. Hal sey offered an invocation, and Governor Brodie in short and appropriate re- marks, introduced the speaker. At the conclusion of the lecture Chaplain Scott made a short talk concerning | the University Of Arizona, and Dr. Wheeler's complication of his inter- 1 est in it's success by devotinG a week cf his time to the present visit to
 Arizona entirely at his own expense. A vote of thanks was given the distin- guished speaker, and the benediction
 was pronounced by Rev. A. M. Gib- | bons.
 | The early minutes of the lecture were | devoted to a brief review of the worlds history. the controlling forces | of the early peoples, referring chronolo- gically to the nations that dominated Europe and Asia in the early centur- | ies. together with some of the reasons for the changes on the map that fol- | lowed pursuant to the order of des-
 tiny. He spoke of the Oriental people
 as being inspired with the idea that the world force is the beginning and
 the end, the ultimate That the indi- vidual was but a part Of the great
 machine, hence the foundation of all
 their religions was the idea of rein carnation or returning to again be- come part Of the same old machine. Opposite in nature to the material is
 the Occidental idea of the importance
 Of the individual man; that his per scnal destiny might be different from ; that of other parts of the great world
 machine
 The highest type of the Occidental idea, he said, was the ancient Greek, while Islam represented the highest | type Of the Oriental idea. The battle
 ground of the ages had been the Ae- gean sea, the Black sea to the north and the Mediterranean to the south.
 Backward and forward across this re- 1 zion had swept the armies of the Oc-
 cident and the Orient in the great con- | test. victory perching first upon one
 side and then the other till finally four
 great territories were worked out,
 known as the Mohammedan, the Ro-
 man, the Grecian, which included the 1 Russian, and the northern that is now represented by Germany, England and
 America. or these four territories he
 talked most. for they represent the four great forces that are to solve
 the future history of the world.
 | The MChammedan still represents the ! far east, while the Latin countries, he
 said, have lost the hope and power of conquest, have really become the effem-
 mate in national character. Italy.
 Spain and France, in a broader way representing the Roman territory, have 1 had their day in these respects, while
 the masculinity in national character | embraces the Grecian territory, now represented by Russia and the north
 ern territory represented by Germany, England and America It is the two ! Ia st named fnrpns hat -aI
 against each other. both struggling for supremacy in the field of the Orient,
 while the real battle-ground Of the world has changed from the Aegian
 sea to the broad oceans of the world, | but chiefly the Pacific The Cld-wOrld ] house, metaphorically expressed, has ! been turned inside out. and instead of | the quarrel being within. it is now without or on the high seas.
 He spoke at some length Of Russia's IirVulncrable position. How she had en- 1 tered Tartary, had finally found an outlet to the sea at Pert Arthur, had occupied Manchuria. and would never withdraw and how and why she is des- l tined ultimately to conquer Turkey Macedonia. and, fCrcing her way to the Mediterranean, absorb Greece. He said that after every Turkish incident it l has been plain that Russia in the final ity finds herself making progress a policy she is bound to pursue to the attainment of the object indicated Re
 turning to the east he spoke of the Russian national character, it's fea-
 lures that appeal to the Chinese dem
 onstrating why China would rather
 be swallowed by q Russian than any
 one el2e. In this achievement he re-
 ferred to the wonderful future of Si-
 be-ia. which in the next fifty years
 will become densely populated. That
 is one side of the battle array. In talk
 ing up the other pr. Wheeler devoted
 a great deal of time 10 describing the
 national character of the Germans, the
 English and the Americans. This DOT
 tion of the lecture was by far the
 most humorous, but every anecdote
 impressed a point more clearly than it
 could otherwise be done. He spoke
 first of the English of the various at