Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-06-09
ROMANES LECTURE GIVEN
BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Event Postponed by Kings Death Attracts a
Large Audience at Oxford---Lord Curzon
Introduces the Distinguished American.

dTOunu "HTSaW, hlPl, NoNEOTO0, ana
Moscow. as the wild savnges OF the
stcppcs and the marshy forests struggled
haltingly and ~stumblingly upward to
become builders OF cities and to form
stable governments. rhe kingdoms of
Charlemagne and Alfred were new"
compared with the empire on the Bos-
phorus, they were also In every way dit.
ferent: their lines of ancestral descent had
nothing I'm coinmon with those of the
polyglot realm which paid tribute to the
Caesars of Byzantium. their social prob
lens and aftertime history were totally
different. This is not true of those ''new"
nations which spring direct from old ma
tions. Brazil. the Argentine, the United
States. are all new" nations. compared
with the nations cf Europe; but with
whatever changes In detail, their Civiliza-
ton Is nevertheless of the general Euro
penn type. as shown In Portugal, Spain,
and England. The differences between
these new" American and these "old"
European nations are not as great AZ those
which separate the new" nations one
from another and the "old" nations one
from another. There are In each case
very real differences between the new and
the old nation-dinerences both for good
and for evil: but in Zach case there Is
the same ancestral histoiy to reckon with,
the same type of civilization. with its at
tendant benefits and shortcomings; and,
aftcr the pioneer stages are passed, tie
problems to be solved. in spite of superb
cial differences. are In their essence the
same: they are those that confront all
civilized peoples. not those that confront
peoples struggling from bnrbarism into
civilization.
So. when we speak of the death" of
a tribe. a nation or a civilization, the term
may be used for either one or two totally
different processes; the analogy with
whnt occurs in biological history being
complete. Certain tribes OF savagcs. the
Tasmaninns. for instance, and various lit
tie clans of American Indians, have within
the last century or two completely died
out: all OF the individuals have pcrlshed,
leaving no descendants. and the blood has
disappeared. Certain other tribes OF
Indians have as tribes Disappeared or
are now disappearing; but their blood
remains. being absorbed into the veins of
the white intruders, or of the black men
introduced by these white intruders; so
that In reality they are merely being
transformed into something absolutely
different from what they were.
A like wide diversity In fact NAV he
covered in the statement NAT n c~ivilIzo-
ton has died out"
,
'"e'o'"e"a NAT ruHL'e'
IN dealing, not with groups OF human
beings In simple ana primitive relations.
out WIN hishly conplex, highly special
'neh' ciViilZeu, or senl-clVinzcd societies.
,hcre IS need or great caution In drawing
hhaloGi"s win what has occurred In the
ueN'IoPhlcht OF inc animal world. Yet
eve" III 'heSe cases u Is curious 10 sec
now some OF the phenomena In the
SIo"'h ana dlsappcilrance OF these rom
p'eN' hrthcial groups or human beings
rcScilpie "hht has happened In myrlads
Oh INSTANCES IN the history or life on this
planet
why 40 great artllclai empires, whose
CltlE'llS are KNIT ny q DDnd OF speech ana
culture inuch more than by n bond OF
p'oou' snow PERIODS OF extraordinary
CROWN. ana again or sudden or lingering
uccayE In some cases we can answer
Iea"liy enough IN o'her cases we can
not as yet even guess what the proper
me centrifugal forces overcome the cen
'r'petai' tne hation VIII or course fly to
process una IN" reason TOT It's failure to
become II dominant FORCE Is patent to
e'ery one me minute that the spirit
whch mas It's healthy development In
,ocai cii-RoVcfhment' ana IN the antidote
20 the oanHers or an extreme ccntrallza-
tlon' develops into mere particularism,
INTO ihaoihty 10 combine effectively for
ach'eNeWeht OF n common ehd' tlen IL IL
hoIe''ss 10 expect great results. roland
anu ccr'a'h r'pupll's OF the western
hemisphere are me standard examples OF
ta'iure OF this kind. ana the United states
"ouiu nave ranked wan them. and Its
name Woulu nave become a byWord OF
uerisi"n' II the FORCES or union had not
'rlu'lph"u IN the clVli war. 30 the
CROWN OF sort luxury after 1t has reached
a certain point becomes a national danger
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,,n't,, -, 1917, a,Im ~ .'o,n'r OF d
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