The state herald. (Holyoke, Logan County, Colo.) 1887-1921, 1910-04-29
DUTIES OF CITIZEN
Colonel Roosevelt Lectures on
This Subject in Paris.
BIG AUDIENCE IN s0RBoMNE
Savants, Professors and Students
Hear the Ex-President's Views on
the Responsibilities Of the Indivd-
ual-Hits at Race Suicide in France.

the Responsibilities Of the Individ.
ual-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 "Citi-
zenship in Republic" 1t was an ap-
preciative audience and the lecturer
was frequently applauded. Mr..
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
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 n 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 1t 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 nation or an individual.
Is OF value only as foundation. only
as there IL added to 1t the uplift that
comes from devotion to loftier ideals.
The new life thus sought can in part
be developed afresh from what is
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 ! speak today.
1t is a mistake for any nation merely
to copy another; but It is an even
greater mistake. It is n 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 m,Lo =, ,ru,,.
full and productive therein. II Is for
us of the new world IN al, n, ,,a ,oo,
of the GamalIel NJ the old. ,,an I, .a
have the right stun in us wo can s,ow
that Paul. I'm his ,nrr c,r haeona y
teacher ms we'll ns n scholar =
Today. / shall sneo,, IN 90, -, a..
subiec, of Individual c,,I,onsh,n ,ho o
one subject OF vital Imnor,onoa ~ ,a,,
my hearers. and IN mo ma No ~ 49,. .on
trymen. because va, ana az. 40 s,,,
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