The Carlisle independent., 1910-05-12
COL. ROOSEVELT
 HEARD IN BERLIN
Ex-President Lectures on "The
 World Movement"
UNIVERSITY AULA THR0NGED
Modern Civilization Is Compared With That of Former Ages-Speaker Is Hopeful for the Future of
 Mankind.

Berlin.-Before an audience of rlearned men and officials of high mark, Theodore Roosevelt lectured Thursday in the University of Berlin. Every seat in the aula was occupied, and many hundreds of requests for admission had to be denied The dis tinguished American was introduced to his hearers by the rector of the university. His subject was "The World Movement" and he spoke in English instead of in German as he at one time intended.
 Beginning with an eloquent eulogy of the German race and it's achieve ments, the lecturer soon reached the main theme of his discourse, and re- viewed the civilization and culture, so far as we know them, of the earliest peoples and their contributions to the modern world. He then continued:
 Modern Movement Begins.
 At last. a little over 400 years ago. the movement towards world civili- .zation took up its interrupted march. The beginning of the modern movement may roughly be taken as synchronizing with the discovery of printing. and with that series of bold sea ventures which culmi- mated in the discovery of America: and after these two epechal feats had begun to produce their full effects in material and intellectual life, it became inevitable that civilization should thereafter differ not only in degree but even in kind from all that had gone before Immediately after the voyage of Columbus and Vasco q da Cana there began a tremendous re- iisous ferment; the awakening of intel feet went hand in hand with the moral uprising: the great names of Copernicus, Bruno, Kepler, and Calico show that the mind of man was breaking the letters that had cramped It. and for the first time experimentation was used as a check upon observation and theorization. Since then. century by century. the changes have increased in rapidity and complex sity. and have attained their maximum in both respects during the century just past.
 Instead of being directed by one or two dominant peoples, was the case with all similar movements of the past, the new movement was shared by many diff fsrent nations From every standpoint 1t has been of infinitely greater moment than anything hitherto seen. Not in one but in many different peoples there has been extraordinary growth in wealth, in population, in power of organization. and in mastery over mechanical activity and natural resources. All of this has been accompanied and signalized by an i'm mense outburst of energy and restless initiative. The result Is varied as 1t Is striking.
 Conquest of the World.
 In the first place, representatives of this civilization, by their conquest of space, were enabled to spread into all the prac- tically vacant continents. while at the same time by their triumphs in organiza- ton and mechanical invention, they ac- suuired an unheard-of military superiority as compared with their former rivals. To these two facts is primarily due the further fact that for the first time there is really something that approaches world civilization, world movement. The spread of the European peoples since the days of Ferdinand the Catholic and Ivan the Terrible has been across every sea sand over every continent. In places the conquests have been ethnic; that is, there has been a new wandering of the peoples. and new commonwealths have sprung up in which the people are entirely or main fly of European blood. This is what hap pened in the temperate and sub-tropical regions of the Western Hemisphere, in Australia, in portions of northern Asia .and southern Africa. In other places the conquest has been purely political the Europeans representing for the most part merely a small caste of soldiers and ad- administrators, as in most of tropical Asia and Africa and in much of tropical Amer ,ica Finally, here and there instances oc- eur where there has been no conquest at all, but where an alien people is profound sly and radically changed by the mere i'm epact of western civilization.
 There are of course many grades be- tween these different types of influence, but the net outcome of what has occurred during the last four centuries is that civi-
 
 cises a more or less profound effect over practically the entire world. There are snooks and corners to which it has not yet penetrated; but there is at present no large space of territory in which the gen seral movement of civilized activity does not make itself more or less felt. This represents something wholly different from what has ever hitherto been seen. Tn the greatest days of Roman dominion the influence of Rome was felt. over only "a relatively small portion of the worlds surface. Over much the larger part of the world the process of change and develop ssnent was absolutely unaffected by any thing that occurred in the Roman empire; and those communities the play of whose Influence was felt in action and reaction, eand in intersection. among themselves, were grouped immediately around the Mediterranean. Now, however, the whole world is bound together as never before: ttne DOnQS are SOIHetiliiGS tIIOSc Ol Hdlicu rather than love. but they bonds 
 All the Nations Linked.
 Browning or hopeful, every man of lead zership in any line of thought or effort must now look beyond the limits of his own country The student of sociology sknay live in Berlin or St. Petersburg, ~ me or London, or he may live in Mel
 arne or San Francisco or Buenos Aires: > es in whatever city he lives. he must pay Id to the studies of men who live in each of the other cities When in Amer eica we study labor problems and attempt sto deal with subjects such as life insur- sance for wage-workers. we turn to see what you do here in Germany, and we also turn to see what the far-off com smonwealth of New Zealand is doing, When great German scientist is warning against the most dreaded enemies of man. . kind creatures of infinitesimal size which the microscope reveals in his blood. he may spend his holidays of study in cen ftral Africa or in eastern Asia; and he must know what is accomplished in the of Tokyo. just as he must know the details of that practical appica- tion of science which has changed the