The Mena weekly star., 1910-05-19
COL. ROOSEVELT
 HEARD IN BERLIN
Ex-Presidcnt Lectures on "The
 World Movement"
UNIVERSITY AULA THRONGED
Modern Civilization Is Compared With That of Former Ages-speaker ls Hopeful for the Future of
 Mankind.

Berlin, May 12.--Before an audience of learned men and officials of high rank Theodore Roosevelt lectured to- day at the University of Berlin. Every seat in the aula was occupied and many hundreds of requests for admission had to be denied. The dis tinguished American was introduced to his hearers by the rector of tho university. His subject was The World Movement" and he spoke in English instead of in German as he at one time intended.
 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 far as we know them, of the earliest peoples and their contributions to the modern world He then continued;
 Modern Movement Begins.
 At last, little over 400 years ago the movement towards a world civili- xation took up it's interrupted march. The beginning of the modern movement may roughly be taken synchfonizng with the discovery of printing, and with that series of bold sea ventures which culmi- mated in the discovery of America; and after these two epochal feats had begun to produce their full effects in material and intellectual life, 1t became inevitable that civilization should thereafter differ not only in degree but even in kind from all that had gone before. Immediately after the voyage of Columbus and Vaseo da Cana there began tremendous re- ligious ferment. the awakening of intel lect went hand in hand with the moral uprising: the great names of Copernicus. Bruno, Kepler, and Calico show that the mind of man was breaking the letters that had cramped 1t; and for the first time experimentation was used as a check upon observation and theorization Since then. century by century, the changes have increased in rapidity and complex ity. 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 ferent nations. From every standpoint it has been of infinitely greater moment than anything hitherto seen. Not in one but in many differont peoples there has been extraordinary growth in wealth. In population, in power of organization. and
 
 natural resources All of this has been accompanied and signalized by im- mense 5utburst of energy and restless initiative. The result is varied as 1t is striking
 Conquest of the World.
 In tho first place, representatives of this civilization, by their conquest of space, were enabled to spread into all the prao- ticaiiy vacant continents. while at the hxg ri in, nfa saf yfl ton and mechanical invention, they ae- qiiired an unheard-of military 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 and over every continent. In places the conquests have been ethnic; that is, there has been a new wandering of the peoples, and new commonwealths have sprung up in which the people are entirely or main r. of European blood. This is what hap paned in the temperate and 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- ministrators. as in most of tropical Asia and Africa and in much of tropical Amer ica. Finally here and there Instances oc- cur where there has been no conquest al all. but where an clien people Is profound iy 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 clvi- lization of the European type now exer- cises a more or less profound effect Ovel practically the entire world. There ars hooks and corners to which it has not yet penetrated: but there Is at present nc large space of territory In which the gen eral movement Of civilized activity doe: not make itself more or less felt. This represents something wholly differen from what has ever hitherto been seen In the greatest days of Roman dominion the influence of Rome was felt over only q relatively small portion of the world'i surface. Over much the larger part of tho