The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-06-10

s suUts of oxford university Theodore
q pnosevelt on June 7 delivered the
nomones lecture, his subject oelng
nDioIogjcal Analogies in History Inc
,a p had been scheduled for delivery
IN May IS, but OF course was post
~ Oarod On account of King Edwards
souise It was given in the sheldon
~ tboatpr and Lord Curzon, as chan-
81 "nI,or of the university, presided ana
introduced the lecturer,
IN eeekipg to penetrate the causes
=. the mysteries that surround not
On,v mankind but all life, both in the
Uresept and the past, said Mr. RooSe-
poIt We see strange analogies IN the
Dbonomena Of life and death, OF blrth
prowtb and change, between those
ehrs;cal groups Of animal life which
20 designate as species, forms, races
and tbe highly complex and composite
entities which rise before our minds
when we speak of nations and ciVi-
I,gotions It is this study, he assert
~ that has given science its present
Sor nromInence, and the historian OF
mortind must work in the scientific
snirit and use the treasure-houses OF
science.
Tn illustrate, the lecturer took sew.
-, ,,s+onces of the development OF
new species and the extinction OF spe-
cies in the history Of mammalian Il1e'
showing that in some cases the causes
CON he traced with considerable accu-
rocv and in other cases we cannot so
much as hazard a guess as to why a
given change occurred.
AnaIogles In Human History
Continuing, Mr.. Roosevelt said IN
part: ~,
Now as TO all of these phenomena In the
avo,ution of species, there are, II no'
bomoIogies, at least certain analosies' IN
az history of human societies, in the
historv of the rise to prominence, or the
1oysIopment and change, of the tenn
nororv dominance, and death or trans
sormation. of the groups Of varying KING
which form races or nations.
As IN biology, so in human history
new form may result from the speclallza
ZION NJ a long-existing and hitherto yer!
slowlv-changing generalized or non
sneciaIized form; as, for instance, Whel
barbaric race from variety or cause
suddenly develops a more complex culti
vation and civilization. That Is what oc
curred for instance, in western Europ
during the centuries of the Teutonic ant
LATER the Scandinavian ethnic overflow
from the north. All the modern countrle
Of western Europe are descended from IN
states created by these northern invaders
When first created they could be calie
"new" or young states In the sens
that mart or all of the people composin
them were descended from races tina
hitherto had not been civilized at all, an
that therefore for the first time entere
on the career Of civilized communities
In the southern part Of western Europ
the new states thus formed consisted l
bulk of the inhabitants already in the Ian
under the Roman empire: and 1t wa
here that the new kingdoms first too
shape. Through a reflex action the
influence then extended back into the col
forests from which the invaders had com
and Germany and Scandinavia Witnesse
the rise of communities with essential
the same civilization as their souther
neighbors; though in those commun1ue
unlike the southern communities, thel
was no infusion of now blood and in eaC
case the new civilized nation which grad'
ally developed was composed entirely
members of the same race which in II
came region had for ages lived the life
q slowly changing barbarism. The san
was true of the Slavs and the Slavonizt
Films Of eastern Europe, when an inf
tration of Scandinavian leaders from Il
north and infiltration of Byzantil
culture from the south Joined to produ
the changes which have gradually, out
the little Slav communities Of the fore
and the steppe. formed the mighty RusSl;
empire of today.
NEW" and "Young" Nations.
Again. the new form may represe
merely a splitting off from a long esta
lished. highly developed and specialize
nation. In this case the nation is usual
spoken Of as young" and is correct
spoken Of as a new" nation; but t
sense of the difference between what
described in such case, and what is
scribed by the same term in speaking
civilized nation just developed from
barbarsm Carthage and Syracuse we
new cities compared with Tyre and c.
inth but the Greek or Phoenician race W
In every sense Of the word as old in
new city as in the old city. So, nevada
ftaI,a g, IN,
compared with England or Scotland:
the ancestral type of civilization and C
ture is as old in one case as in the 9th
OF course do not mean for NONE
that great changes are not produced
the mere fact that the old civilized RI
Is suddenly placed in surroundings VIII
1t has again to go through the work
tanning the wilderness, work finisl
many centuries before in the origi
home Of the race l merely mean Il
the ancestral history is the same in ei
case. We can rightly use the phrase
new people" in speaking of Canadi;
or Australians, Americans or Afrikande
But we use 1t in an entirely differ
sense from that in which we use it wi
speaking Of such communities as tn
founded by the mortimer and their
scendants during that period of astoni
Ing growth which saw the descendants
the Morse sea thieves conquer and ira
form Normandy, Sicily, and the Brit
Islands; we use it in an entirely differ
sense from that in which we use it w
speaking Of the new states that grew
around Warsaw, Kief, Novgorod,
MOSCOW, as the wild savages of
steppes and the marshy forests strugs
naltingly and stumblingly upward
become builders of cities and to fl
stable governments. Fhe kingdoms
Charlemagne and Alfred were me