The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1910-04-28


ual-tiits at Race Suicide In France.
Paris. April 23.-Savants, professors
and students OF the University of
Paris crowded the assembly hall OF the
Sorbonne this afternoon to hear Col
Theodore Roosevelt lecture on "Citi-
zenshlp In a Republic" II was an ap-
preciatiYe audience and the lecturer
was frequently applauded. Mr..
Roosevelt said:
Foundations OF Our Republic.
This was the most famous uniyer-
city OF medieval Europe at a time
when no one dreamed that there was
a new world TO discover. Its services
TO the cause OF human knowledge al.
ready stretched far back into the
remote past at the time when my fore
fathers. three centuries ago. when
among the sparse bands of traders,
plowmen. wood choppers and fisher
folk. who. In hard struggle with the
iron unfriendliness Of the Indian
haunted land. we're laying the founda.
tons OF what has now become the
eaehN atPuglit VI Ntbl. 10 NOu-
Quer n continent. to tame the shaggy
roughness OF Wild nature means grim
warfare: and the generations engaged
in II cannot keep. still less add TO.
the stores OF garnered wisdom which
were therein. and which are still I'm
the hands OF their brethren who dwell
IN the old land To conquer the
- It,
from the same hostile forces with
which mankind struggled In the i'm
memorial Infancy OF our race. The
primeval conditions must be met by
primeval qualities which are incom.
patible with the retention Of much
that has been painfully acquired by
humanity as through the ages II has
striven upward toward civilization.
In conditions so primitive there can
be but a primitive culture.
Building the Higher Life.
As the country grows. its people. who
have won success In so many lines.
turn back to try to recover the pos.
sessions OF the mind and the spirit.
which perforce their fathers threw
aside In order better to wager the first
rough battles for the continent their
children Inherit. The leaders OF
thought and OF action grope their way
forward to a new life. realizing. some
times dimly. sometimes clear-slghted.
ly. that the life OF material gain.
whether for a nation or an individual.
is OF value only as n foundation. only
as there Is added 10 Il the upllft that
comes from devotion 10 loftier Ideals.
The new life thus sought can IN part
be developed afresh from what is
round about in the new world: but
II can be developed in full only by
freely drawing upon the treasure
houses OF the old world. upon the
treasures stored In the ancient abodes
OF wisdom and learning. such as this
where I speak today.
II Is a mistake for any nation merely
20 copy another; but II Is an even
greater mistake. II is a proof OF weak.
ness In any nation. not TO be anxious
20 learn from another. and willing and
able TO adapt that learning 10 the new
national conditions and make II fruit.
full and productive therein. Il is for
us OF the new world to sit at the feet
OF the Gamaliel of the old: then n we
have the right stun in US, we can show
that Paul. In his turn. can become a
teacher as well as a scholar.
Today. ! shall speak to you on the
subject Of individual citizenship, the
one subject Of vital importance to you.
my hearers. and to me and my coun.
trymen. because you and we are citi.
gems OF great democratic republics. A
democratic republic such as each OF
ours-an effort to realize In its full
sense government by. Of. and for the
people-represents the most gigantic
OF all possible social experiments, the
one fraught with greatest possibilities
alike for good and for evil
Great Lesson Of France.
France has taught many lessons 10
other nations: surely one Of the most
important is the lesson her whole his
tory teaches. that a high artistic and
literary development is compatible
with notable leadership in arms and
statescraft. The brilliant gallantry OF
the French soldier has for many cen.
turtles been proverbial. and during
these same centuries at every court in
Europe the free masons of fashion"
have treated the French tongue as
their common speech: while every art
list and man OF letters. and every man
of science able to appreciate that mar.
velous instrument OF precision. French
prose. has turned towards France for
aid and inspiration. How long the lead
ership In arms and letters has lasted
is curiousiy illustrated by the fact that
the earliest masterpiece in modern
tongue Is the splendid French epic
which tells OF Roland's doom and the