The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-05-12
Boil. ROOSEVE|LT'S
|WORLD movement
! ADDRESS GIVEN
spoke Before the University Of
! Berlin at It's Centenary
Celebration
UPu|FT movements MUST Be
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Barbarism Surged Back and Forth
5 Over the Conquest Of the Early Civi.
& lisations-The World Has ON the
Il Whole Grown Better, Not Worse.
Berlin, May 12-Col. Roosevelt,
FORMER president Of the United States,
delivered his lecture today on the
topic, The World Movement at the
University of Berlin and received from
the university the honorary degree
of doctor Of plhilosophN Emperor
William honored the occasion with his
presence. ~
It was the first time his majesty
had graced the conforment and. the
courtesy was significant In view of
the fact that the German court is in
mourning for the monarch's uncle,
King Edward. The ceremony Of con-
ferring the degree was staged and
conducted with impressive simplici-
ty.
Col. Roosevelt in his lecture spoke
as follows:
I very much appreciate the chance
to address the University of Berlin
in the year that closes it's first cen-
tenary Of existence. It is difficult for
you in the old world fully to appre-
ciate the feelings Of man who comes
from nation still in the making, to
country with an immemorial historic
past; and especially is this the case
when that country, with its. ancient
past behind 1t. yet looks with proud
confidence into the future, and in the
present shows all the abounding vigor
Of lusty youth. Such is the case with
Germany. More than a Thousand
years have passed since the Roman
empire Of the west became in fact
German empire. Throughout medi-
aeval times the empire and the papacy
were the two central features in the
history Of the occident: With the OF
tos and the Henrys began the slow
rise of that western life which has
shaped modern Europe. and therefore
ultimately the whole modern world.
Their task was to organize society and
to keep 1t from crumbling to pieces.
They were castle-builders, city-found-
ers, road-makers; they battled to
bring order out of the seething tur-'
bulence around them; and at the
same time they first beat back heath
endom and then slowly wrested from
1t it's possessions.
After the downfall of Rome and
the breaking in sunder of the Roman
empire, the first real capitalization
Of the forces that were working for
a new uplift of civilization in western
Europe was round the Karling house.
and. above all. round the great em-
peror, Karl the Great the seat Of
whose empire was at Aachen. Under
the Karlings the Arab and the Moor
we're driven back beyond the
Pyrenees; the last of the old heather
Germans were forced into Christian
tty, and the Avars. wild horsemen
from the Asian steppes, who had long
held tented dominion in middle Eu-
rope; were utterly DESTROYED. With
the break-uP of the Karling empire
came chaos once more, and fresh in
rush of savagery: Vikings from the
landish riders from Asia. 1t was the
who quelled these barbarians; in their
time Dane and Norseman and Magyar
became Christians and most of the Slav
peoples as we'll, 80 that Europe began
to take on shape which we can rec
ognize today. Since then the CEN
turies have rolled by, with strange al
terations Of fortune, now well-nigh
barren, and again great with German
achievement in arms and in govern
ment, in science and the arts. The
center Of power shifted hither and
thither within German lands! the
great house of Hohenzollern rose, the
house which has at last seen Germany
spring into commanding position
in the very forefront among the ma
tiOne of mankind.
A Different Kin.
To this ancient land. with its glor-
ious past and splendid present. to this
land of many memories and of eager
hopes. come from young nation,
which is by blood akin to. and yet
different from. each of the great ma
tions of middle and western Europe:
which has inherited or acquired much
from each, but is changing and devel-
oping every Inheritance and acquis-
ition into something new and strange.
The German strain in our blood is
large. for almost from the beginning
there has been large German ele-
ment among the successive waves Of
newcomers whose children's children
have been and are being fused into the
American nation; and / myself trace
my origin to that branch of the Low,
Dutch stock which raised Holland out
Of the North sea. Moreover. we have
taken from you, not only much Of the
blood that runs through our veins.
but much Of the thought that shapes
our minds. For generations Ameri-
can scholars have flocked to your
universities. and, thanks to the wise
/. foresight Of his imperial majesty the
present emperor. the intimate and
friendly connection between the two
countries is now in every way closer
than 1t has ever been before.
Germany is pre-eminently country
In which the world movement of today
IN all Of its multitudtnous aspects 10
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