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'DUT|Es OF CITIZEN
Colonel Roosevelt Lectures on
This Subject in Paris.
BIG AUDIENCE IN S0RB0NNE
6avants, Professors and Students
Hear the ex-President's Views on
the Responsibilities Of the individ-
ual-Hits at Race Suicide In France.

the Responsibilities Of the individ-
uai-Hits at Race Suicide In France.
Paris, April 23.-Savants. professors
and students of the University OF
Paris crowded the assembly hall of the
Sorbonne this afternoon to hear Col.
Theodore Roosevelt lecture on "Ciu-
xenship in Republic" II was an ap-
preciative audience and the lecturer
was frequently applauded. MIR.
Roosevelt said:
Foundations Of Our Republic.
| This was the most famous univer-
city of medieval Europe at time
when no one dreamed that there was
a new world to discover. Its services
to the cause of human knowledge al
ready stretched far back into the
remote past at the time when my fore
fathers, three centuries ago, when
among the sparse bands Of traders.
plowmen, wood choppers and fisher
folk. who. in a hard struggle with the
Iron unfriendliness of the Indian
haunted land, were laying the founda-
tons of what has now become the
giant republic of the west. To con-
quer continent, to tame the shaggy
roughness of wild nature means grim
warfare; and the generations engaged
In 1t cannot keep. still less add to.
the stores of garnered 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
primeval conditions must be met by
primeval qualities which are incom-
patible with the retention of much
that has been painfully acquired by
humanity as through the ages It has
striven upward toward civilization.
In conditions so primitive there can
be but primitive culture.
Building the Higher Life.
AS the country grows, its people. who
have won success In SO many lines,
turn back to try to recover the pos
sessions Of the mind and the spirit,
which perforce their fathers threw
aside in order better to wager the first
rough battles for the continent their
children inherit. The leaders OF
thought and OF action grope their way
: forward to new life. realizing some
times dimly. sometimes clear-sighted-
: ly. that the life of material gain,
whether for a nation or an individual,
Is of value only as foundation. only
10 ~ hn ~
comes from devotion to loftier ideals.
The new life thus sought can in part
be developed afresh from what is
I round about In the new world; but
! 1t can be developed In full only by
freely drawing upon the treasure
houses OF the old world. upon the
!. treasures stored in the ancient abodes
of wisdom and learning. such as this
\ where l speak today.
1t is mistake for any nation merely
to copy another: but 1t is an even
. greater mistake, 1t Is a proof of weak.
ness In any nation. not to be anxious
to learn from another. and willing and
able to adapt that learning to the new
national conditions and make 1t fruit
ful and productive therein. II is for
us of the new world to sit at the feet
: Of the Gamaliel of the old: then II We
y have the right stuff in us, we can show
!, that Paul. In his turn. can become a
: teacher as well as scholar.
Today. | shall speak to you on the
!, subject OF individual citizenship, the
one subject of vital Importance to you
: my hearers, and to me and my coun
trymen, because you and We are citi
Eens OF great democratic republics. A
> democratic republic such as each o
y ours-an effort to realize In its full
v sense government by, of, and for the
, !, people-repressnts the most gigantic
= : Of all possible social experiments. the
: one fraught with greatest possibilities
- alike for good and for evil.
Great Lesson Of France.
France has taught many lessons Il
). other nations: surely one Of the most
important is the lesson her whole his
Q tory teaches. that high artistic and
literary development is compatible
/ with notable leadership in arms and
y statescraft. The brilliant gallantry ol
II the French soldier has for many cen
a. turtles been proverbial. and during
x these same centuries at every court in
Europe the free masons of fashion
K have treated the French tongue as
Q their common speech; while every art
Ist and man Of letters, and every mar
70 Of science able to appreciate that mar
Is velous instrument Of precision. French
prose. has turned towards France fol
a aid and inspiration. How long the lead
Is ership In arms and letters has lasted
Is curiously illustrated by the fact that
u The earliest masterpiece in modern
tongue is the splendid French epic
which tells Of Roland's doom and the