The Forrest City times., 1910-05-13
Conquest of the World.

Tn me NrSt pace representatives Of fHts civilization. by their conquest Of space were enabled to spread into all the prar-
 ically vacant continents while at the farae time. by their tri8mphs h orgauIza- tion and mechanical invention. t..ev ae- ruired an unheard-of military superiority ss compared with their former rivals To q eFe two facts is primarily due the further fact that for the Grs; time there
 s really something that approaches q world civilization. q world movement. The tprrad of He European peoples since the e7Ys ot Ferdinand the Catholic and Ivan the Terrible has been across every sea and over every continent Tn places the rnnareats haze been ethaie. that ls. there has been new wandering of the peoples
 and new cornfnonwealths have sprung up In which the people are entirely or natH- lv of Eurorean blood. This 4s what hap pencd Tn the temperate and sub-trop3cai regions of the Western Hemisphere. ia Australia. in portions of northern Asa
 and southern Africa Tn other places tie r6n1uest has been purely political the l Europeans representing for the most part merely 9 small caste of soldiers and aa- n1ln.stratarE. as in most of tropical Asfe md Africa and In much of tropical Amer lea Finally. hera and there instances oe- cfrr where there has been no conquest at
 sH- but where m alien people is p-ofouna= lH and radically changed bv the mere ifn- pact af western civilization
 There are at course rnan~ grades be- tR.fr these different types af influence. ! tHt trr n@f eete me of what has occurred { ming tke lzsf faGr centuries Is that ef4I- l tzatio1 of tle European type now excr- cises a rara or less profound effect over practically the ent re world There are renfs and corners to whieH f has not ye. penetrated hft there is nt present no large sraer of territory tr which ine gen tfza4 fna*emeat ef civi zed activity does | represents something wholly different from what has ever hitherto been seen
 r. tro Eraate days of Roman d1r7f7ta,f5 tHe inf,lcnse of Rome was felf over aufv
 relatively small portion of fhc worlds tIrface over much tie isrssr pert of tf4
 world the process of change and aa.afart= r1e0t was absolutely ufla fTeet.a b-- a+f.- tfur that occurred iu the Roman c,nu.re-
 tta those communities the play of wfzase -rHacnr~ Eue felt in action and reaction
 tri fr inter action. Guang ftfmseires.
 e=era grouped Immediately around fHs Mediterranean. Now however Tho whole
 world Is be55tf toEe' her as -nex.r hefar#a. tff h1-.ds are sometimes t#sose of h4frad
 rather fAta Ioee. but they are bonds
 ueverjhctssa
 All the Nations Linked.
 Fro~ulnz CT hopefu'. evory nan or lead
 srsAlp in arv t=uc of thought cr rfrorf must now look heyotd fIc limits of lis afzn seHaffzs THe student Of sociology na" live n PerIfa e- g. Petersburg
 Rome or io.san. or te may j>o "a Mel b14r1e or San Francisco ar f}aert7s s#-#s
 bal j.. whatever eI.y -e ltxss fl. r3ast f4t seed to tae studies of men who ifv. in each of t'.e othef cities Vhen lu Nr~.r- tct Wc study lahar problems asaa a:tefn.4. 10 deal with subjects such IS life insHr= Rrcc for wage workers. we turn ta aas what you da here in Germany and 0e Hiso turn to See what the far-oN com faonwealth ef New Zealand is doing When a great German scientist is warning against the most dreaded enemies of man Kind. creatures ef indnitesimal sizo which the microscope reveals Tn kta blood le nay spend his holidays of study iu cea- trai Africa or Tn eastern Asia. and ha u.Nff know what is accomplished Tn the lahoratories Of Tokyo. just as be must know the details of that practical anpisea= .,o1 of science which has changed the Isthmus ef Panama from a deatt-frap Into what Is almost health resort. Every progressive h China Is striving to Intro duce western methods Of education and administration. and hundreds of European