Arizona republican., 1910-05-13
Address Of |CoL. Roosevelt
 Before University ofBePin WHERE THE DANGER LIES
Ruin Which Overwhelmed Former Civilizations Re suit of Defects Avoided By Character Cultiva- tion.

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 made his appearance before the Uni versity of Berlin a matter of doubt | almost to the last minute former | President Roosevelt today delivered his address, The World Movement. "
 and won for himself the plaudits of his distinguished assemblage gathered to hear him. which had among it's l members, the emperor and empress.
 Princess Victoria Louise, Prince and Princess Eitel Frederick and the other 1 members of ther oval family.
 In the course of his address Col. Roosevelt said:
 '.The play of new forces is as evil dent in the moral and spiritual world as in the world of the mind and the body. Forces for good and forces for evil are everywhere evident each act ing with a hundred or a thousand fold the intensity with which i: acted in former ages. over the whole earth the swing of the pendulum grows more and more rapid, the handspring coils and spreads at a rate constantly quickening. the whole world movement is of constantly accelerating velocity.
 Tn this movement there are signs of much that bodes i'll. The machin- cry is so highly geared. the tension and strain are so great, {. C effort and the output have alike 90 increased, that there is cause to dread the ruin that would come from any great ac- eident. from any brSakdown. and also the ruin that may come from ths mere wearing out of the machine it. self. The only prev.ous civilization with which our modern civilization can be in any way compared is that period of Graeco- Roman civilZi- ion extending. say. from the Athens of Themistocles to the Rome of Marcus Aurelius. Many of the forces and tendencies which were then at work are at work now. Knowledge. luyufy. and refinement: wide material con- quests. territorial administration on a vast scale, an increase in the mastery of mechanical appliances and in applied science-all these mark our civiliza- ton as they marked the wonderful civilization that flourishei in the Mediterranean lands twenty centuries ago; and they preceded she downfall of the older civilization. Yet the diff ferences are many. and some of them are quite as striking as the similari- ties"
 What is the lesson to us today? Are we to go the way of the older civiliza- tions? The immense increase in the area of civilized activity today, so that it is nearly coterminous with the worlds surface; the immense increase in the multitudinous variety of it's activities; the immense increase in the velocity of the world movement-are all these to mean merely that the crash will be all the more complete and ter rible when it comes? But of this we can be certain, that we shall not go down in ruin unless we deserve and earn our end. There is no necessity for us to fall; we can hew out our destiny for ourselves, if only We have the wit and the courage and the hon. esty.
 Personally, do not believe that our civilization will fall. I think that on the whole we have grown better and not worse. I think that on the whole the future holds more for us than even the great past has held. But, assured ly. the dreams of golden glory in the
  Of heart and strong of hand, by our own mighty deeds we make them come true. We cannot afford to develop any one set of qualities. any one set of at the cost of seeing others, equally necessary. atrophied. Neither the military efficiency of the Mongol, the extraordinary business ability of the Phoenician, nor the subtle and pol ished intellect of the Greek availed to avert destruction.
 Tt is no impossible dream to build | up a civilization in which morality, | ethical development, and a true feel | ing of brotherhood shall all alike be l divorced from false sentimentality. and | from the rancorous and evil passions l which, curiously enough, so often ac- professions of sentimental at | tachment to the rights of man; in | which a high material development in | the things of the body shall be achieved | without subordination of the things of | the soul in which there shall be a | genuine desire for peace and justice | without loss of those virile qualities | without which no love of peace or justice shall avail any race; in which | the fullest development of scientific | the great distinguishing fea- ture of our present civilization, shall | yet not imply a belief that intellect
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