The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-07


enemies within our OWL households
and these enemies are our OWL Pas
S1OnS and f3IIIeS Free peoples can
escape being mastered hv other only
by being able TO master themselves
We Americans and you people Of the
British Isles, alike. need ever To keep
in mind that. among the many quail
ties indispensable to the success Of Z
great democracy, and second only TO
high and steru sense Of duty, Of
moral obligation are self knowledge
and self mastery You my hosts. and
may not agree IN al our views some
OF you would think me 4 very radical
democrats, for the matter Of that.
am and MY theory Of imperialism
would probably suit the auE-Emper-
tain type OF forCibIe-feehIe fnperIzIist-
But there are some points On which
we must all agree If We think sound
" The precise form Of government.
democratic or otherwise Is the insru-
ment. the tool with which we work |
It Is important 70 have q good tool
But, even il It Is the best possible, It
Is only 4 tool No implement can ever
take the place Of the guiding fnteIIf- |
gence that wieIdS IT, A very bad tool
VIII ruin the work Of the best crafts
man but Z good tool in had hands IS
no better In the last analysis the al
Important factor IN national greatness
Is national character
| Is the End Nearg
There are questions which we Of the
great civilized nations are ever tempt
/ ed to ask OF the future L our time OF
growth drawing to an end2 Are We as
| nations soon 20 come under the rule OF
/ that great law q death which IS Itself
but part Of the great law Of ufeZ None
can tail Forces that we can see and
other forces that are hidden or that
| can but dhmIy De appreheuded are at
| work all around Us, both for good and
for evil The growth IN fIxury. II Love
/ Of ease in taste for vzpdd and frivolous
excitement Is both evident and uu-
healthy The most ouinous sign Is the
| dIn1lnWtion IN the birrh-rate. in the
rate Of natural increase. now to q
I larger or lesser degree shared ay most
/ Of the civilized nations Of central and
western Europe, Of America and Aus
/ Eralt4; 4 6utuuttou 50 great that II 1t
continues for the next century at the
rate which has obtained for the last
/ % years all the more highly civiEzest
peoples VIII De Stationary or else have
/ teguu to 60 backward in population
| while many Of them Will have already
/ gone very far BACKWARD
/ There Is much that should give Us
concsru for the future But there Is
/ much also which should give Us hope
| No man Is more apt TO be mistaken
I than the prophet Of evil After the
/ French Revolution IN 1880 NIebuhr
hazarded the guess that all civilization
Il = q ~.
that We were al Ia.bout TO share the
fail OF third and fourth century Rome
Ia respectable but painfully ovGrwOrked
/ comparison The fears once expressed
by the followers Of Nautilus as to the
{ future OF the world have proved ground
less a. regards the civilized portion Of
the world IL IS strange indeed TO look
back al CarIyie's prophecies Of some
I 70 years ago and then think Of the
/ teeming life Of achievement the life O.
Z f-fT- Of ind ~
/ effort crowned by success. which has
| been ours for the two generations since
he complained TO high Heaven that all
the tales had been told and al the
/ songs sUuE and that al the deeds
/ really worth doing had been done
/ believe with all MY heart that & great
! future remains for u.s. but whether II
/ does Or does not our duty Is not al
/ tered However the battle may 90. the
soldier worthy Of tie name VIII with
| utmost vigor do his aIIotted task and
bear himself as vaIia1rIy IN defeat as
| in victory Come what Will we be
long TO peoples who have not yielded TO
! the craven fear Of being great In the
/ ages that have gone by. the great IA
| irons, the nations that have expanded
I and that have played a mighty part
| in the world. have IN the end growu
old and weakened and vanished. but
I so have the nations whose ouIy
f thought was to avoid all danger all
/ effort. who would risk nothing and
| who therefore gained nothing IN the
/ end the same fate may overwheIn all
| alike. but the memory OF the one type
perShes with It. while the other leaves
its mark deep On the history Of al the
| future of mankind
/ Nations May Be Born Again
4 nation that seemingly dies may be
born again and even though IN the
physical sense II die utterly It may yet
hand down a-history Of heroic achieve
ment, and for all time To come may
/ profoundly influence the nations that
arise in its place by the impress Of
what it has done Best OF all IS It To
/ do our part wei, and at the same time
I to see our blood live young and vital
I in men and women fit to take I'd the
I task as we lay II DOWN for so shall
our seed inherit the earth But II this
I which Is best. Is denied Us then at
Z least IT Is ours TO remember that II we
I choose we can be torch bearers as our
fathers were before Us. The torch has
been handed on from nation TO nation
from civilization to civilization
Throughout all recorded time. from the
dim years before history dzwued- down
to the blazing spIeudor Of this teemfng
/ century OF ours. It dropped from the
hand Of the coward and the siuEgzrd
OF the man wrapped in luxury or love
OF ease the man whose soul was eaten
away by self Indulgence It has been
kept zhghr only by those who were
mighty Of heart and cunning Of hand
I What they worked at, providing II was
I worth doing at all was Of less matter
than how they worked whether IN the
realm Of the mind or the realm Of the
body If their work was good II what
they achieved was of substance, then
high success was really theirs
/ In the first part Of this lecture Z
drew certain auGIogfes between what
had occurred to forms Of animal life
through the procession Of the ages On
~rTz = hat Ee- =
f Is occurring 70 the great artificial civ
| iLizarionS which have gradually spread
over the worlds surface during the
I thousands Of years that have elapsed
since cities Of temples and palaces first
/ rose beside the Nile and EuphrateS.
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