Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-05-13
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better and not worse"
So declared Colonel Roosevelt today. in
his address on The World Movement
at the University OF Berlin He took oc-
casion, though, to warn all nations
against the loss OF the fighting edge,
race suicide, or a one-sided development.
The speaker just mentioned "conserva-
ton" Colonel Roosevelt spoke in part
as follows:
To this ancient land. with its glorious
past and splendid present. 1 come from
q young nation, still in the making. which
is by blood akin to and yet different
from each OF the great nations Of mid
die and western Europe: which has in
herited or acquired much from each, but
is changing and developing every inherI-
lance and acquisition into something new
and strange.
The German strain in our blood is
large. and I myself trace my origin To
that branch Of the Low Dutch stock
which raised Holland out OF the North
sea We have taken from you much OF
the thought that shapes our minds. Fer
generations American scholars have
hocked 10 your universities, and thanks
20 the wise foresight Of the present en-
peror the intimate and friendly connec-
ton between the two countries is now
closer than ever before. Germany is
pre-sminentIy a country in which the
world movement OF today in all its as
pects is plainly visible.
JEWISH RELIGION MOST Pc
TENT IN EFFECT ON MANKIND.
Our cultural history begins with the
Jew. the Greek and the Roman. In the
spiritual domain the Jew contributed a
religion which has been the most potent
OF all factors in its effect on the subse-
quent history of mankind. but none of his
other contributions compare with the leg
scies left Us by the Greek and the RO-
man The Greco-Roman world saw a
civilization far more brilliant and intense
than any before IL. and one that affected
q larger share Of the worlds surface.
Then IL fell During the Middle Ages
the civilized world was slowly climbing
back 20 the position from which it had
fallen after the age OF the Antonines. In
this period Islam rose, uniting different
races In a brotherhood Of feeling Chris
tisnity has neverbeen able TO rival, and
producing a civilization brilliant and here
and there useful but hopelessly limited.
The Hun and Avar. Mongol. Tartar and
Turk came against Europe. a strange
succession OF terrible conqueror races.
vance Of mankind
At last, a little over 400 years ago, the
movement toward a world civilization
took up its interrupted march, at the
time OF the discovery Of printing and the
discovery OF America. At the same time
there began a tremendous religious fer
ment, and the awakening Of intellect
went hand IN hand with the moral up
rising Since then the changes have In
creased In rapidity and complexity. at
tanning their maximum IN the century
just passed The result is as varied a,
IL Is striking.
In the first place representatives OF
this civilization. by their conquest 81
space, were enabled to spread into all tbs
same time. by their triumphs in organiza-
ton and mechanical invention, they &C
QuIred an unheard OF military superiority
as compared with their former rivals. tt
these two facts Is primarily due the
further fact that for the first time there
r. really something that approaches q
world civilization.
Steam and electricity have given th'
race dominion over land and water sucr
as IL never had before; and now the con
quest OF the air is directly impending
Minds are swayed by one another with
out regard to the limitations Of space and
time which formerly Imposed cOmparl
tive isolation upon each community. The
machinery OF the factory and the farm