The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1910-06-10

OF the aula at the University of Berlin,
ana delivered a lecture on 1.-The World
Movement" He spoke in English and
was listened to with the deepest in.
terest.
Beginning with an eloquent eulogy
OF the German race and it's achieve.
ments, the lecturer soon reached the
main theme Of his discourse, and re.
viewed the civilization and culture. so
Tar as we know them, of the earliest
peoples and their contributions to the
modern world. He then continues:
At last. a little over 400 wears
ago, the movement towards a world ciyili-
zat1on took up its interrupted march. The
beginning OF the modern movement may
roughly be taken as synchrOniZing with
'le discovery of printing, and with that
series or bold sea ventures which culmi-
mated IN the discovery Of America: and
after these two epochal feats had begun
10 produce their full effects in material
ana intellectual life, it became inevitable
'hat civilization should thereafter differ
nU' ON! IN degree but even in kind from
"i 'ilat mad gone before. Immediately
nl.er me voyage of Columbus and Vasco
ga CANA there began a tremendous re-
lslous fcr1nent; the awakening OF intel
lect went hand in hand with the moral
uprising; the great names OF Copernicus,
hrnno, kepler, and Calico show that the
NINA or man was breaking the letters
lnat mad cramped 1t; and for the first
ulne experimentation was used as a check
upon observation and theorizatiOn. Since
lhen, century by century, the changes
nave increased in rapidity and complex
NY, and have attained their maximum in
both respects during the century Just
past.
instead OF being directed by one or two
dominant peoples, as was the case with
all similar movements of the past, the
new movement was shared by many DIFF
1erent nations. From every standpOint If
has been of infinitely greater moment
than anything hitherto seen. Not in one
put IN many different peoples there has
be'n extraordinary growth in wealth, in
population, in power Of organization, and
IN mastery over mechanical activity and
natural resources. All of this has been
accompanied and signalized bv an i'm
m"nse outburst of energy and restless
initiative. The result is varied as it is
striking.
Conquest Of The World.
In the first place, representatives Of this
civilization, by their conquest of space.
were enabled to spread into all the prac-
ucally vacant continents, while at the
same time, by their triumphs in organiza-
ton and mechanical invention, they ac-
t"'A' AZ IL IIlIllldTS SUPERIORITY
as compared with their former rivals. To
these two facts is primarily due the
further fact that for the first time there
is really something that approaches a
world civilization. a world movement. The
spread Of the European peoples since the
days of Ferdinand the Catholic and Ivan
the Terrible has been across every sea
ana over every continent. In places the
conqueStS have been ethnic; that is, there
mas been a new wandering Of the peoples.
and new commonwealth have sprung up
IN which the people are entirely or main
ly of European blood. This is what hap
pened in the temperate and sub-tropical
regions Of the Western Hemisphere, in
Australia, in portions of northern Asia
and southern Africa. In other places the
conquest has been purely political, the
Europeans representing for the most part
merely a small caste of soldiers and ad-
mlnlstrators. as in most Of tropical Asia
and Africa and in much of tropical Amer
lea. Finally, here and there instances oc-
cur where there has been no conquest at
all, but where an alien people is Profound
ly and radically changed by the mere i'm
pact Of western civilization.
There are Of course many grades be-
tween these different types Of influence,
but the net outcome of what has occurred
during the last four centuries is that civil
lization of the European type now eXer-
ciscs a more or less profound effect over
practically the entire world. There are
hooks and corners to which it has not yet
penetrated; but there is at present no
large space Of territory in which the gem
"ral movement Of civilized activity does
not make itself more or less felt. This
represents something wholly different
from what has ever hitherto been seen.
In the greatest days of Roman dominion
the influence Of Rome was felt over only
Il relatively small portion Of the worlds
surface. Over much the larger part of the
world the process of change and deyelOD-
n,ent was absolutely unaffected by any
thing that occurred in the Roman empire;
and those communities the play of whose
influence was felt in action and reaction,
and in 'inter-action. among themselves,
We're grouped Immediately around the
Mediterranean. Now. however, the whole
world is bound together as never before:
the bonds are sometimes those of hatred
rather than love, but they are bonds
nevertheless.
All the Nations Linked.
browning or hopeful, every man Of lead
ership in any line Of thought or effort
must now look beyond the limits Of his
own country. The student Of sociology |
may live in Berlin or st. Petersburg, |
Rome or London. or he may live in Mel |
bourne or San Francisco or Buenos Aires; |
but in whatever city he lives, he must pay |
heed to the studies Of men who live in
each of the other cities. When in Amer |
lea We study labor problems and attempt |
to deal with subjects such as life insur-
ance for wage-workers. we turn to see
what you do here in Germany, and we
also turn to see what the far-off COM |
m~onWealth of New Zealand Is doing.
When Il great German scientist Is warning
against the most dreaded enemies of man. |
kind, creatures of inflnitesimal size which
the microscope reveals in his blood. he
may spend his holidays Of study in GEN.
trail Africa or In eastern Asia. and ho