The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-05-18
COL, ROOSEVELT
HEARD IN BERLIN
Ex.PreSident Lectures on "The
World Movement"
UNIVERSITY AULA THR0NGED
Modern Civilization IL Compared With
That Of Former Ages-speaker Is
Hopeful for the Future Of
Mankind.

0OpeTUJ TOT INC FuIVV0 VI
Mankind.
Berlin.-Before an audience of
learned 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-
cation 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 epochal feats had begun
to produce their full effects in material
and intellectual life, 1t 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
da Cana there began tremendous re-
ligtous ferment; the awakening OF intel.
tect 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 check
upon observation and theorization. Since
then, century by century, the changes
have increased in rapidity and complex
lty, and have attained their maximum IN
both respects during the century just
past.
Instead of being directed by one or two
dominant peoples, as was the case with
all similar movements Of the past, the
new movement was shared by many diff
ferent 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
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
were enabled to spread into all the prac-
tically vacant continents, while at the
same time, by their triumphs In organlza-
ton and mechanical invention, they &C
uuired an unheard-of military superiority
as compared with their former rivals. TIC
these two facts is primarily due the
further fact that for the first time there
lis really something that approaches a
world civilization, world movement Inc
spread of the European peoples since the
days of Ferdinand the Catholic and War
the Terrible has been across every sea
and over every continent. In places the
conuuests have been ethnic; that is. there
has been a new wandering of the peoples
and new commonwealth have sprung ul
In which the people are entirely or main
ly of European blood. This Is what hap
pened in the temperate and sub-troplca
regions of the Western Hemisphere, II
Australia, in portions of northern Asia
and southern Africa. In other places thu
conquest has been purely political. tn
Europeans representing for the most par
ministrators, as in most Of tropical ASH;
and Africa and in much Of tropical Amer
lea, Finally, here and there instances oc
cur where there has been no conquest a
all, but where alien people Is profound
ly and radically changed by the mere I'm
pact of western civilization.
There are of course many grades be
tween these different types of influence
but the net outcome of what has occurre
during the last four centuries IS that civil
lization Of the European type now exer
cises more or less profound effect owe
practically the entire world There ar
hooks and corners to which it has not We
penetrated but there is at present n
large space of territory in which the ger
eral movement of civilized activity doe
not make itself more or less felt TIL
represents something wholly differer
from what has ever hitherto been seer
In the greatest days of Roman dominic
the influence of Rome was felt over onl
a relatively small portion of the world
surface Over much the larger part of TT
world the process Of change and develol
ment was absolutely unaffected by an!
thing that occurred in the Roman empire
and those communities the play of who's
influence was felt in action and reaction
and in inter- action, among themselve
were grouped Immediately around tt
Mediterranean. Now, however, the who
world Is bound together as never befor
the bonds are sometimes those Of hatre
rather than love, but they are bono
nevertheless.
All the Nations Linked.
browning or hopeful. every man of lea
ership in any line OF thought or emo
must now look beyond the limits Of h
own country The student of sociolof
may live in Berlin or st. Petersbur
Rome or London, or he may live In Me
bourne or San Francisco or Buenos Aire
but in whatever city he lives. he must p'
heed to the studies of men who live
each Of the other cities. When IN Anne
lea we study labor problems and attem
TO deal with subjects such as life insu
ance for wage-workers we turn to S
what you do here in Germany. and
also turn to see what the far-oT col
monwealth of New Zealand Is doir
When a great German scientist Is warri
against the most dreaded enemies of ma
kind, creatures Of infnitesimal size Will
the microscope reveals In his blood.
may spend bis holidays of study In &C
trail Africa or in eastern Asia; and