The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1910-04-29


Reads Them Lecture on sterility.
Paris, April Eek President Roose
welt today lcctured before an audience
ut the Sorbunne. that comprised the
greatest gathering Of the intellect and
learning of France that has gathered
at this ancient educational seat In
more than century. II ever before
Long before the time announced for
the beginning Of Colonel Rooseyelts
lecture every seat In the great audi.
forum was filled. and thousands lined
the walks and streets about the uni
yersity Colonel Roosevelt said:
Foundations Of Our Republic.
This was the most famous unlyer.
sity Of medieval Europe at n time
when no one dreamed that there was
new world to discover. Its services
to the cause Of human knowledge nj.
ready stretched far back In TO the
remote past nj the time when my fore.
fathers. three centuries ago. were
among the sparse bands OF traders,
plowmcn. wood choppers. and fisher.
folk who. In hard struggle with tho
iron unfriondlinoss Of the Indian.
haunted land. were laying the founda.
lions OF what has now become the
giant republic OF the west. To con
luer a continent. TO tame the shaggy
roughness OF wild nature means grim
warfare; and the generations engaged
In Il cannot keep, still less add To-.
the stores OF gnrnered wisdom which
were therein. and which are still in
the hands Of their brethren who dwell
In the old land. To conquer the
wilderness means to wrest victory
from the same hostile forces with
which mankind struggled in the i'm.
memorial infancy OF our race. The
primoyal conditions must be met by
primoval qualities which are ineom'
patible with the retention Of much
that has been painfully acquired by
humanity as through the ages II has
striycn upward toward civilization
In conditions 80 primitive there can
be but a primitive culture.
Building the Higher Life.
| A tho country groyya ita npOnle Whf
So, -, ,,,,,,a.. a. 80 nony It,es
r,rr haoL 40 ,rv ,o recovor tho nos
,essions of tho mind and Tho spirit
vbIch per,orce their fathers threw
,s,do in ordor hotter IN wage the nrst
rough battles for the continent theil
children inherit The leaders o
though, and of action gropc their wa,
forward 10 n now Iifc realizing some
,imas dInIv sometImoa characterized
10 ,h,, tho iife ~ material gain
whether for n nation or an individual
Il nj valuo only ma n foundation. onl,
,s there IL added 10 IL the uplIft tina
comes from deviation 10 letter idealg
The new IIfe thus sought can I'm mar
bo deveIoned afresh from what 1,
round about I'm the new world. I'm
/, can no deyeloped I'm full only b,
freely drawing unon the treasur,
houses Of the old world. upon IN,
treasures stored I'm the ancient abode
NJ wisdom ana learning such AS thI
whoro / snenk today
fl Isnm mistake for any nation merel
10 copy hnolntTs Dut u " an tN'I
greater mistake. II In n proof Of weak
ness In any nation. not to be anxlou
10 learn from another. and willing an
able to adapt that learning TO the ne'
national conditions and make II frui
: hl and productive therein II is TO
us OF the new world to sit ut the fec
OF the Gamallel OF the old. then II "
have the right stun In us. We can shot
that Paul. In his turn. can become
teacher as well as scholar
To-day. 4 shall sneak To you on IN
! subject of individual citizenship. III
, one sui feet of vital Importance to yol
l my hearers. and to me and my coul
/ trymen, because you and We are cit
, lens OF great democratic republics
democratic republic such ms each ,
{ DURAN effort to realize In lis Ia
o sense government by, OF, and for III
mediterranean the most gigantI
4 Of all possible social experiments, ii
) one fraught with greatest posslbllitlC
alike for good and for eyll.
cr.,, .ssons y, Franc.
franc, has ,oush, no,v ,.ssons
5 ,thsr na,ions. surely one NJ Inc mo,
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