The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-05-12
1.-THE WORLD
MOVEMENT

n
dore Roosevelt delivered his lecture
today on 1.-The World Movement" at
! the University of Berlin and received
! rhe university honorary degree of
Doctor of Philosophy.
Emperor william was present. 1t
was the first time the Emperor has
graced a confernent with his pres
ence and the courtesy is significant
| in view of the fact that the German
court is in mourning for King Edward.
Mr.. Roosevelt appeared rugged and
| in the pink of physical condition. His
voice was husky at first, but soon
gained in clearness and power
To-day 7 am in Berlin University"
began the speaker. Yesterday / was
in the open air university of the Ger
man army and sat at the feet of the
great master of that university"
Perrin, May 1z.-Speaking before
the University of Berlin today Colo
mel Roosevelt took as tle subject mat
ter of his lecture THE World Move
ment Colonel Roosevelt said:-
"The World Movement"
THE play of new forces is as evil
dent in the moral and spiritual world
body Forces for good and forces for
evil are everywhere evident. each act
ing with a hundred or a thousand fold
the intt nsity with watch it acted In
sormer ages. Over the whole earth
the swing of the pendulum grows
more and more rapid. The main
spring coils and spreads at a rate con-
stantly quickening, the whole world
movement is of constantly acceler-
atine velocity.
"Iu this movement there are signs
of much that BODIES i'll. Tie znacain-
cry is so highly geared, the tension
and strain are So great the effort and
the output have alike so increased,
that there is cause to dread the ruin
tnat would come from any great ac-
cident, from any breakdown, and also
the ruin that may come from the mere
wearing ont of the machine Itself. The
only previous civilization with which
our modern civilization can be in any
way compared is that period of Crae-
co Roman civilization extending, say.
frI-n the Athens of Themistocles to
the Rome of Marcus AureliuS. Many
of the forces and tendencies wGica
are taken ut work are at work now.
Knowledge. luxury and refinement,
wide material conQuests, territorial
administration on a vast scale, an H.
crease in the mastery of mechanical
appliances and is applied science-all
these mark or civilization as the
wonderful civilization that flourished
in the Mediterranean lands twenty cen
turies ago: and they preceded -
downfall of the older civilization.
Yet tle differences are many, and
some Of them are quite as striking az
the sinilarties. The single fact that
the old civilization was based upon
slavery shows that the chasm rhat
separates the two. Let me point out
one further and very significant diff
ference in the development of the two
civilizations a difference so Obvious
that il is astonishing that it has not
been dwelt upon by men of letters.
zone of the prime dangers of civil
izatiun has always been its tendency
to cause the loss of the virile fighting
virtues of the fighting age. Waen
men get too comfortable and lead too
luxurious lives there is always dan
ger less the softness eat like an acid
into their manliness of fiber. The
barbarian. because of the very condi-
tions of mis- life. is forced to keep and
develop certain hardy qualities which
the man of civilization tends to lose.
whether ne be clerk, factory hand,
merchant, or even a certain type OF
farmer Now I will not assert that
in modern civilized society these ten
denotes have been wholly overcome;
but there has been a much more sue
cessful effort to overcome them than
was the case in the early civilizations.
What is the lesson to us today?
Are we to go the way of the Older
civilizations? The immense increase
in the nultitndinous variety
OF activities: the immense increase
In the velocity of the world movement
are all these to mean merely that