The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-08
col. ROOSEvELrS LECTURE.

AnalOEies Between biological ChAREe
and the Course % History.
Col. Roosevelt opened his address with
some discussion Of his personal position
in making an address before the Uni
versity Of Oxford After illusions b his
own Dutch ancestry and some remarks
regarding the associations possessed IN
common by England and the United States
he said: The sthnic makeup Of our
people is slowly Angih % that oOn-
stahtly the race tends 20 tecoms m re
and more akin n that Of thoss Americans
who. like myself. are Of the old stock
ut not mainly OF English stock Yet I
spec .underst hiding and sympathy among
the English speaking peoples grow greater
and not less. Any Of my ancestors. HOl-
lander or Huguenot. SCotchman or Irish
man, VIC had come "a Oxforl In the
spacious days Of great Elizabeth would
have felt ia more alien than !. their
descendant. now feel Comm N heirship
IN the things of the spirit makes closer
bond than common heirship in the things
of the bod
q He next spoke % the progress Of science
IN the last century and the growth Of the
scientific spirit a. characteristic 81 the
trained intells Il Of the present day Then
turning 10 historic study he vent on.
We must insist upon the hist Jrian Of
mankind working IN the scientific spirit.
and us,ng the treasure houses Of science
Ne who wo ID fully treat Of man must
know ~ least something ~ biIlo ~.
II the science that treats 4, Z livinr. breath
ing things and esp Cially " that science
~ evolution which ~ inseparably con-
nsCted with the great name Of Darwin
~ course there IL no exact parallelism
between the nth, growth and deaf Of
srscies in the animal world and the birth.
roWth nd deaf Of cieties in the
world Of man Yet there j. n certain
paralielisn There are strange anal
ogies. IL may be that there are homologies.
N " far the ressmbll ices between the
two = ~ phenomena are more than
accidental. how far iology m be used a.
an aid in the Interpretation Of human his
tory, ~, cannot at present say The
historian sh .uld never forget. what the
highest type Of scientific man IL always
teaching ~ % remember. that willingness
% admit ignorance is a prime factor in
developing wisdom out Of knowledge
rHE STORY or LIFE.
-GeoloRists and astronomers are not
agreed as 20 the length Of time necessary
for the changes that have taken place
At any rate. many hundreds Of thousands
Of years. some millions Of years. have
pasaed by, since in tho Eocsns. az tho he
ginning Of the Tertiary. period We find the
tracss of an abundant. varied and highly
developed mammalian life on the land
masses out Of which have grown the con-
tinents as We sse them to-day. The ages
swept by until with tho advent Of man
substantially In the physical shape in
which We now know him va also find a
mammalian fauna not essentially different
in kind. though widely differing in dis
tributiOn. from that Of the present day.
Throughout this Immense period form
succseds form. type succeeds type. in
obedience 70 laws Of evolution. Of prog
reas and rstrogression. Of development
and death. which ne a. yet understand
only in the most imperfect manner.
-PhylogensticAlly each animal now
living must necessarily trace its ancestral
descent back thr ough countless genera