Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-24
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he said "hunting for an animal which
was the survivor of the long-halred
rhinoceros that existed here in France
when France was inhabited by naked
saVages."
He had received the first news in let
ters which came simultaneously from
two members of the academy, one in
Mexico and the other in Brazil.
''Mr. President and dear colleague"
he concluded. II thank you once more
from the bottom of my heart"
Colonel and Mrs. Roosevelt were
entertained at dinner tonight by Vice
Rector Lizard, the guests also includ-
ing Ambassador and Mrs. Bacon, Am
bassador and Nine. Jusserand, premier
BRAND, M Doumerque, minister of ed
ucation and the deans of the facul-
ties.
Roosevelt said, in part:
QUESTION Is SUPREME
Today shall speak to you on the subject
of Individual citizenship, the one subject Of
vital importance to you, my hearers, and 10
me and my countrymen, because you and we
are citizens of great democratic republics. a
democratic republic such as each Of ours
an effort to realize in its full sense govern
ment bv. of and for the people-represents
the most gigantic of all possible social expert
ments. the one fraught with greatest possi-
ties alike for good and for evil. The
,ccess of republics like yours and like ours
means the glory, and our failure the despair
of mankind; and for you and for US the ques-
ton OF the quality OF the individual citizen
is supreme.
with YOU here. and with US in my own
home. in the long run, success or failure Will
be conditioned upon the way in which the
average man, the average woman does ms
or her duty, first in the ordinary, everyday
AFFAIRS OF life. ana next in those great ocea-
sional crises which cali for the heroic virtues
The average citizen must be a good citizen II
our republics are TO succeed. The stream VIII
not permanently rise higher than the main
source; and the main source OF national pow
er and national greatness is found In the
average citizenship Of the nation
Let the man of learning, the man OF lettereo
leisure. beware of that queer and cheap
temptaton TO pose to himself and to others
as the cynic, the msu who has outgro"h
emotions and beliefs, the man to whom good
ana evil are as one. The poorest way to face
life is to face It with a sneer. There are
many men who feel kind Of twisted pride
in cynicism; there are many who confne them
selves to criticism OF the way others DO What
they themselves dare not even attempt lhere
is no more unhealthy being, no man less
worthy of respect, than he who either reaiIy
holds, or feigns to hold, an attitude OF sneef-
ing disbelief toward all that is great ana
lofty, whether in achevebent or In that nople
effort which. even II It fall comes second
10 achievement. cynical habit Of thought
and speeoh. a readiness AZ oriticise work which
the critic himself never tries to perform an
intellectual aloofness which will not accept
contact with llfe's realiues-all these are
marks, not, as the possessor would fain thihK'
of superiority, but of weakness.
CRITICS DO NOT COUNT
1t is not the critic who counts; not the
man who points out how the strong man
stumbles, or where the doer Of deeds could
have done them better. The credit belongs
10 the man who is actually in the arena
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and
blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and
comes short again and again, because there
e no effort without error and shortcoming;
but who does actually strive TO do the deeds'
who knows the great enthusiasms, the great
devotions; who spends himself in a worthy
cause; who at the best Knows In the end the
triumph Of high achievement, and VINO at the
worst, II ne fails. at least fails while daring
greatly so that his place shall never be win
those cold and timid souls who know neither
victory nor defeat. Shame on the man Of
develop into fastidiousness that units him
for doing the rough work Of a workaday
world
Among the free peoples who govern them
selves there is but a small neld OF usefui-
ness open for the men OF cloistered life VINO
shrink from contact with their fellows. Still
less room is there for those who derlde or
slight what is done by those who actually
bear the brunt of the day; nor yet for those
others who always profess that they would
like TO take action, n only the conditions
of life were not what they actually are. The
man who does nothing cuts the same sordld
hgure IN the pages OF history. whether he be
cynic, or fop, or voluptuary There is little
use for the being whose tepid soul knows
nothing Of the great and generous emotion
of the high pride, the stern belief, the LOFTY
enthusiasm, of the mea who ouell the storm
and ride the thunder.
France has taught many lessons to other
nations; surely one of the most important is
the lesson her whole history teaches, that
high artistic and literary development is com
patible with notable leadership In arms and
statecraft. The brilliant gallantry OF the
French soldier has for many centuries been
proverbial; and during these same centuries
ut every court in Europe the 'freemasons
Of fashion" have treated the French tongue as
their common speech; while every artist and
man OF letters, and every man Of science able
TO appreciate that marvellous instrument of
precision, French prose, has turned toward
France for aid and inspiration.
Let those who have, keep, let those who
have not, strive TO attain, high standard