The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-05-20
Roosevelt rs ADDRESS AT
UNIV RSITY OF BERLIN

Berlin, May a. Col. Theodore
Roosevelt, former president Of TIE Ijni.
ted States. delivered i lecture 81 the
topic '1The World Movement. it the
University OF Berlin, and received from
the university the honorary decree az
doctor Of philosophy.
Emperor William was present.
It was the first time the emperor
had graced conferment and the cour.
tesy was significant in view Of the
fact that the German court Il ID
mourning for King Edward.
The kaiser presented Roosevelt with
four large water colors, the work Of
famous artists, showing the changes
made in German army uniforms since
1850. The pictures are explained by
notations made by the kaiser himself.
Roosevelt's speech was enthusiast.
cally received by great gathering at
the University of Berlin.
Personally, do not believe that our
civilization will fail. / think that on
the whole we have grown better. and
not worse"
So declared Col. Roosevelt in his adj
dress. He took occasion, though, to
warn all nations against the "loss of
the fighting edge race suicide, or q
one-sided development. Col. Roosevelt
spoke in part as follows:
ITO this ancient land, with its glor-
ious past and splendid present, come
from a young nation, still In the max
ing, which is by blood akin to and yet
different from each of the great ma
tons of middle and western Europe;
which has inherited or acquired much
from each, but is changing and devel-
oping every Inheritance and acquisi-
ton into something new and strange.
"The German strain in our blood is
large, and myself trace my origin to
that branch of the Low Dutch stock
which raised Holland out of the North
sea. We have taken from you much
of the thought that shapes our minds.
For generations American scholars
have flocked to your universities, and
thanks to the wise foresight of the
present emperor the intimate and
friendly connection between the two
countries is now closer than ever be-
fore. Germany is prominently a
rx,I;oI, tho xuor1I r,,0vnvn ont
of today in all its aspects is plainly
visible.
Jewish Religion Most Potent in Effect
on Mankind.
"Our cultural history begins with the
Jew, the Greek and the Roman. In the
spiritual domain the Jew contributed
religion. which has been the most 20.
tent of all factors in its effect on the
subsequent history of mankind, but
none of his other contributions COM
pare with the legacies left us by the
Greek and the Roman. The Greco
Roman world saw civilization far
more brilliant and intense than any
before it, and one that affected alarger
share of the worlds surface. Then it
fell. During the Middles Ages the civ
ilized world was slowly climbing back
to the position from which it had fall
len after the age of the Antonines. In
this period Islam rose, uniting different
races in brotherhood of feeling
Christianity has never been able to
rival, and producing civilization bril-
liant and here and there useful but
|hopelessly limited. The Hun and Avar,
Mongol, Tartar and Turk came against
Europe, a strange succession OF ter
rible conqueror races, but In no way
did they count in the advance Of man
kind.
At last, little over four hundred
years ago, the movement toward a
world civilization took up it's inter-
rupted march, at the time OF the dis
coyery Of printing and the discovery of
America. At the same time there be-
gan tremendous religious ferment,
and the awakening Of intellect went
hand in hano with the moral uprising.
Since then the changes have increased
in rapidity and complexity, attaining
their maximum in the century just
passed. The result is as varied as it
is striking.
I'm the first place representatives
of this civilization, by their conquest
of space, were enabled to spread into
all the practically vacant continents,
while at the same time, by their tri-
umphs in organization and mechani-
cal invention, they acquired an I'M
heard of military superiority as com
pared with their former rivals. To
these two facts is primarily due the
further fact that for the first time
there is really something that ap-
proaches a world civilization.
"Steam and electricity have given
the race dominion over land and wa
ter such as it never had before: and
now the conquest il the air is directly
impending. ! Minds are swayed by one
another without regard to the limita-