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|PEAKS IN PARIS
sses Distinguished Audience
lat Ancient University.
)zENSHlP" HIS SUBJECT

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Btudents and Professors Of Duty
France a. Nation and Them
YES 40 individuals to the World
DDS Them Lecture on sterility.
Is. April 23.-Ex-President Roose-
bday lectured before an audience
Sorbonne. that comprised the
st gathering Of the intellect and
hg Of France tfat has gathered
Us ancient educational seat In
than a century. II ever before.
before the time announced for
beginning Of Colonel Roosevelt's 8
te every seat In the great audi
b was filed. and thousands lined
Falks and streets about the uni
y. Colonel Roosevelt said:
Foundations Of Our Republic.
s was the most famous univer-
of medieval Europe at a time
no one dreamed that there was
J world to discover. Its services
e cause Of human knowledge al
stretched far back In to the
te past at the time when my fore
)rs. three centuries ago. were
Ag the sparse bands OF traders.
men. wood choppers. and fisher
who. in a hard struggle with the
unfriendliness OF the Indian
Sted land. were laying the founda.
OF what has now become the
J republic Of the west. To con-
continent. to tame the shaggy
hness Of wild nature means grim
are; and the generations engaged
cannot keep. still less add to.
btores OF garnered wisdom which
} therein, and which are still In
bands OF their brethren who dwell
be old land. To conquer the
erness means to wrest victory
the same hostile forces with
kh mankind struggled In the Inn
horial infancy of our race. The
beval conditions must be met by
heval qualities which are incom-
ble with tie retention OF much
has been painfully acquired by
banity as through the ages II has
fen upward toward civilization.
conditions so primitive there can
but a primitive culture.
Building the Higher Life.
J the country grows, fits people, who
won success In SO many lines,
back to try to recover the pos.
lions Of the mind and the spirit,
kh perforce their fathers threw
le in order better to wage the frat
gh battles for the continent their
|dren inherit. The leaders oi
hight and Of action grope their way
Eard to a new life. realizing. some
es dimly. sometimes clear-sighted
that the life of material gain,
sther for a nation or an Individual
II value only as a foundation, only
there is added to 1t the uplift that
hes from devotion to loftier ideals
new life thus sought can in par,
developed afresh from what Is
nd about in the new world; but
an be developed In full only BY
Fly drawing upon the treasure
ses Of the old world. upon the
lsures stored in the ancient abodes
wisdom and learning. such as this
ere | speak today.
Is a mistake for any nation merely
copy another; but 1t is an ever
ater mistake. 1t is proof of weak
S In any nation. not to be anxious
earn from another. and willing anc
to adapt that learning to the new
ional conditions and make It fruit
and productive therein. II is fol
Of the new world to sit at the fee
ne Gamaliel of the old; then II We
e the right stun In US, we can show
{ Paul. in his turn, can become &
cher as well as a scholar.
oday. shall speak to you on the
iect Of individual citizenship. the
subject Of vital importance to you
hearers, and to me and my coun
men. because you and We are citi
5 OF great democratic republics. A
aocratic republic such as each O
San effort to realize in its full
Sc government by. Of. and for the
ple-represents the most giganti,
all possible social experiments. the
fraught with greatest possibilitie:
Ie for good and for evil.
Great Lessons Of France.
rance has taught many lessons Il
er nations; surely one Of the mos
'ortant is the lesson her whole his
teaches. that high artistic ant
rary development is compatible
b notable leadership in arms ane
tecraft- The brilliant gallantry o
French soldier has for many cen
les been proverbial. and during
Sc same centuries at every court II
rope the free masons Of fashion
Ie treated the French tongue a
ir common speech: while every art
and man Of letters. and every maj
science able to appreciate that mar
Gus instrument OF precision. Frencl
se. has turned towards France 70
and Inspiration. How long the lead
hip in arms and letters has laste.
illustrated by the fact tina
earliest masterpiece in moderl
que Is the splendid French epi
ich tells of Roland's doom and tn
lgeance Of Charlemagne when tn
ds Of the Frankish host wer
!cken at Roncesvalles.
Need Of Individual Character.
-et those who have. keep. let thos'
o have not. strive to attain a higl
ndard OF cultivation and scholar
p. Yet let US remember that thes'
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Man Missing With Gems.
-hicago.-Norman p Cummings