Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-05-12
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COL ROOSEVELT ADDRESS.

cning the whole world movement Is
of constantly accelcrating velocity
I'm this movement there are signs
OF much that bodies ill The machinery
is so highly goarcd. the tension ana
strain are so great, the effort and the
output have alike So increased thtt
there is cause 10 dread the ruin that
would come from any great accident
from anyAbrca kdown. and also the ruin
that may come from the mere wearing
out of the machine itself. The
only previous civilization with
which our modern civilization can
bc I'm any way compared is tnat
period of Graeco- Roman civilization
extending. say from the Athens OF
Thcmistoclcs TO the Rome of Marcus
Aurolius Many OF the forces and ten
denotes which were then at work are az
work now. knowledge, luxury and re-
fnement wide material conquests, tor
iitorial administration on vast scale,
an increase I'm the mastery OF mecnan-
ical appliances and la applied science
am these mark our civilization as they
marked the wonderful civilization that
Houlished I'm the Mediterranean lands
20 centuries ago, and they preceded the
downfall Of the older civilization. Vet
the differences are many and some OF
them are quite as striking as the sini-
Iaritios The single fact that the old
(
shows the chasm that separates the
two Let me point out one further ana
very significant difference iu the dcvol-
opmcnt OF the two civilizations. dit
ference so obvious that IL is astonishing
that it has not been dwclt upon by men
of letters.
DANGER OF CIVILIZATIONS.
cone Of the prime dangers of civilizu-
ton has always been It's tendency To
cause the loss OF the virilo fighting vir-
tues of the lighting edge When men
gct too comfortable and lead too lux
urious lives there is always danger lest
the softness eat ike an acid into their
manliness Of fiber. The barbarian. be
cause of the very conditions OF his life
Is forced To keep and develop certain
hardy qualities which the man Of civil
lzation tends 90 lose. whether he be
clerk. factory hand, merchant or even
a certain type of farmer. Now ] VIII
not assert that i'm modern civilized so
| ciety these tendencies have been wholly
| overcome: but there has been much
more successful effort To overcome
them than was the case In the early
civilizations.
WHAT Is THE LESSON?
what is the lesson TO us today?
Are we TO 60 the way OF the older
| civilizations? The immense Increase
I
| SD that 10 rs nearly conterminous with
/ the worlds surface the Immense IN
| crease in the multitudinous variety OF
| its activities. the immense increase in
/ the velocity Of the world movement -
| are am these to mean merely that the
| crash win be an the more complete
| and terrible when II comes. we cannot
| be- certain that the answer win be in
| the negative: but Of this we can be
! certain. that we shall not go down in
| ruin unless VIC deserve and earn our
| end There is mo- necessity for us 20
| fan. we can hcw out our destiny for
| ourselves. il only we have the wit and
| the courage and the honesty.
PERSONALS. / do not believe that
our civilization will fall. I think that
4 on the whole we have grown better
| and not worse. / think that on the
| whole the future holds more for us
| than even the great past has held.
/ But. assuredly, the dream OF golden
| glory i'm the future win not come true
! unless high OF heart and strong Of
! hand. by our own mighty deeds We
| make them come true. We cannot af-
ford TO develop any one set Of quail
! ties. any one set Of activities, at the
cost of seeing others equally neces-
sary. atrophied. Neither the military
! efficiency Of the Mongol the oXtraor-
| binary business ability Of ia phooni-
To-.
lect Of the Greek awaited to avert des-
| truction.
THE MEN OF TO-DAY.
we. the men Of today and of the flu
| ture, need many qualities N We are 90
do our work well. We need, first OF all
and most important of an. the quail
/ ties which stand at the base OF
| individual Of family life, the
fundamental and essential quail
ties - the homely, every day ALI
important virtues II the average
man win not work, IL he has not ia him
the will and the power 20 be "a good
husband and father; IL the averag,
woman is not a good housewife, good
mother of many healthy children, then
the state viii topple. will go down, no
matter what may be its brlhance OF
artistic development or material
achievement But these homely quail
tiles are not enough There must IN
addition. be that power of organiza
ton. that power Of working i'm COM
mon for "a common end, which the Ger
man peple have shown In such signal
| fashion during the last halt-century
Moreover. the things of the spirit are
even more important than the things OF
| the body. We can well do without
the hard intolerance and arid intcllec-
| tual barrenncss OF what was worst Dol
I Lln lntoinkltdA NgaAHilN OF ANt ldHAf hNl
there has never been greater need OF
q high and fine religious spirit than aI
the present time So, while We car
laugh good-humoredly at some Of m,
pre- tensions Of modern philosophy in IL,
various branches. IL would be- WOrs,
than folly on our part to ignore ouI
need Of intellectual leadership. You
own great Frederick once said that &
he wished 10 punish "a province h'
would leave it 10 be governed by
I philosophers The sncer had IN 10 an
element of justice; and Vet no one bet
ter than the grcat Frederick knew th
value of philosophers, the value %
men Of science. men OF letters. men %
art. II would be a bad thing iudee
10 accept Tolstoy as guide I'm socia
and moral matters. but IL would also b
a bad thing not Co have Tolstoy not q
profit by the lofty side OF his teach
inRs, There are plenty Of scienth
men whose hard arrogance. who's
cynical materiahsm. whose dogmati
Intolerance put them on a level wit
the bgoted medieval ecClesiastiCisn
which they donOunce. Yet our debt L
scientific men Is incalculahle, and ou
civilization Of today would have ref
from II an that which most highly dis
| tinguishcs IL IL the work a the grea
masters Of science during the past fOu
| centuries were now undOne or forgot
ten Never has philanthropy. humani
tarianism. seen such development a
now; and though we must an bowar
| Of the folly and the vicinusncsq n