The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1910-05-12


and delivered q lecture on The World
Movement" He spoke In English and
vas listened To with the deepest In
eorest.
Beginning with an eloquent euiogy
oe the German race and its achieve
0ents. the lecturer soon reached the
main theme Of his discourse, and re.
viewed the civilization and culture, SO
Tar as We know them, Of the earliest
peoples and their contributions to the
modern world. He then continued:
At last. little over 700 years
ago, the movement towards . world civili-
sation took up Its interrupted march. The
beginning OF tho modern movement may
roughly be taken a. synchronlzinG with
the discovery Of printing. and with that
oertcs OF bold sea ventures which cuimi-
mated in the discovery Of America: and
after these two epochai feats had begun
to produce their full effects In material
and Intellectual life, 1t became Inevitable
that civilization should thereafter differ
not only in degree but even In kind from
all that had gone before Immediately
after tho voyage Of Columbus and vasco
a Cana there began = tremendous re-
ugfous fefment: the awakening of intel
sect went hand in hand with the moral
',
Bruno. kepler. and GalIieo show that the
mind Of man was breaking the letters
that had cramped It: and for the first
time experimentation was used As a checl
upon observation and theorixation. Since
then. century by century the chanRes
have Increased in rapidly and complex
ity. and have attained their maximum In
both respects during the century lust
past.
Instead OF being directed by one or two
dominant peoples. was the case with
eli similar movements Of the past. the
new movement was shared by many dif-
ferent nations. From every standpoint II
has been OF infinitely greater moment
than anything hitherto seen. Not In one
but In many different peoples there has
been extraordinary growth In wealth, in
population. in power of organization. and
IN mastery over mechanical activity and
natural resources. All Of this has been
accompanied and siKnallzed by an i'm
mense outburst of energy and restless
Initiative The result II varied As It 10
striking.
Conquest Of the World.
In the first place. representatives of this
civilization. by their conquest of space,
were enabled to spread into all the prac-
tically vacant continents. while at the
same time. by their triumphs In organixa-
tion and mechanical invention, they ac-
Quired an unheard-of military superiority
~ compared with their former rivals To
these two facts IL primarily due the
further fact that for the nrst time there
10 really something that approaches a
world civilization. a world movement, The
spread Of the European peoples since the
days of Ferdinand the Catholic and Ivan
the Terrible has been across every sea
ana over every continent. In places the
conQuests have been ethnic: that is. there
has been new wandering of the peoples
= n nt1p hat-a
In which the people are entirely or main
ly of European blood. This is what hap
pened In the temperate and sub-tropical
regions of the Western Hemisphere, in
Australia. In portions OF northern Asia
and southern Africa. In other places tho
conquest has been purely political. the
Europeans representing for the most part
merely small caste Of soldiers and ad-
illustrators. as In most Of tropical Asia
and Africa and in much OF tropical Amer
lea. Finally, here and there instance. oc-
cur where there has been no conquest at
all. but where an alien people is profound
ly and radically changed by the mere i'm
pact of western civilization.
Ihere are OF course many grades be-
tween these different types OF influence,
but the net outcome of what has occurred
during the last four centuries Is that civil
uxatton OF the European type now exer-
ciscs a more or less profound effect over
practically the entire world There are
hooks and corners to which It has not vet
penetrated: but there Ia at present no
large space Of territory In which the gem
eral movement of civilized activity does
not make itself more or less felt. This
represents something wholly different
from what has ever hitherto been seen
In the greatest days Of Roman dominion
the influence OF Rome was felt over only
= relatively small portion OF the worlds
surface. Over much the larger part of the
he nf chup
ment was absolutely unaffected by any
thing that occurred in the Roman empire;
and those communities the play of whose
influence was felt in action and reaction,
and in inter-actlon. among themselves
were grouped Immediately around the
Mediterranean. Now. however the whole
world Is bound together as never before:
the bonds are sometimes those of hatred
rather than love. but they are bonds
nevertheless.
Al the Nations Linked.
Frowning or hopeful. every man of lead
ership In any line of thought or effort
must now look beyond the limits of his
own country. The student OF sociology
may live In Berlin or st. Petersburg,
Rome or London. or he may live in Mel
bourne or San Francisco or Buenos Aires
but in whatever city he lives he must pay
heed to the studies Of men who live in
each of the other cities. When in Amer
sCa We stuuS lanct problems ana attempt
TO deal with subjects such as life insur-
Ance for wage-workers, We turn to see
what you do here in Germany, and we
also turn to see what the far-oN COM
monwealth of New Zealand Is doing
When n great German scientist is warning
against the most dreaded enemies of man
kind. creatures of infinitcsimal size which
the microscope reveals in his blood. he
may spend his holidays OF study In CEN
trai Africa or IN eastern Asia. and he
must know what is accomplished In the
laboratories of Tokyo. Just rs he must
know the details of that practical applica-
ZION of science which has changed the
tsthmus of Panama from death-trap
into what Ia almost health resort. Every
progressive In China Is striving to intro
Aoce western methods of education and
0AAinistration. and hundreds OF European
onA American books are now translated
Ato Chinese. The influence OF European
governmental principles is strikingly H.
Illustrated by the fact that admiration for
them has broken down the iron barriers of
Moslem conservatism, SO that their intro
x1uction has become burning question in
Turkey and Persia: while the very unrest.
tho impotence OF European OF American