The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1910-05-13
Ex.PreSident Lectures on "The
World Movement"
UNIVERSITY AULA THR0NGED
Modern Civilization 10 Compared With
That Of Former Ases-Speaker 10
Hopeful for the Future Of
Mankind.

mark, Theodore Roosevelt lectured
Thursday in the University of Berlin.
Every seat in the aula was occupied,
and many hundreds Of requests for
admission had to be denied. The dis
tinguished American was introduced
to his hearers by the rector Of the
university. His subject was "The
World Movement" and he spoke in
English instead of in German as he
at one time intended.
Beginning with an eloquent eulogy
of the German race and its achieve
ments. the lecturer soon reached the
main theme of his discourse, and re-
viewed the civilization and culture, so
far as we know them. of the earliest
peoples and their contributions to the
modern world. He then continued:
Modern Movement Begins.
At last. little over 400 years
ago. the movement towards a world civili-
cation took up its interrupted march. The
beginning of the modern movement may
roughly be taken as synchronizing with
the discovery OF printing and with that
series of bold sea ventures which culmi-
mated In the discovery of America: and
to produce their fun effects In material
and intellectual life. Il became inevitable
that civilization should thereafter differ
not only In degree but even in kind from
all that had gone before. Immediately
after the voyage Of Columbus and vasco
da Cana there began tremendous re-
iisyous ferment: the awakening of intel
fect went hand In hand with the moral
uprising: the great names OF Copernicus
Bruno, kepler. and Calico show that the
mind of man was breaking the letters
that had cramped 1t: and for the first
time experimentation was used as . check
upon observation and theorization. Since
then. century by century. the changes
have increased in rapidity and complex
ity. and have attained their maximum In
both respects during the century just
past.
Instead OF being directed by one or two
dominant peoples, as was the case with
all similar movements OF the past. the
new movement was shared by many dif-
ferent nations. From every standpoint IL
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 signalIzed by an i'm
mense outburst OF energy and restless
Initiative. The result is varied as II Is
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 Mt the
same time, by their trumphs In organza-
ton and mechanical invention. they ac-
uuired an unheard-ef military superiority
as compared with their former rivals. To
these two facts Is primarily due the
further fact that for the first time there
Is really something that approaches n
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
and over every continent In places the
conquests have been ethnic: that Is. there
has been a new wandering of the peoples.
and new commonwealths have sprung up
In which the people are entirely or main
iy 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 the
conquest has been purely political, the
Europeans representing for the most part
merely n small caste OF soldiers and I'D
illustrators. as In most of tropical Asia
and Africa and In much of tropical Amer
lea. Finally. here and there instances oc-
cur where there has been no conquest at
all. but where an alien people is profound
| ty and radically changed by the mere I'M
pact Of western civilization.
There are of course many grades be-
! twee. these different types of influence,
but the net outcome of what has occurred
| during the last four centuries is that civil
| lization Of the European type now eNer-
| cises a more or less profound effect over
| practically the entire world. There are
Il z-trv ,..1 So a. t..-
| penetrated. but there Is at present nc
large space of territory In which the gen.
/ 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
world the process of change and develop,
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-action. among themselves
were grouped Immediately around the
Mediterranean. Now. however. the whole
world In bound together as never before
the bonds are sometimes those Of hatred
rather than love. but they are bond.
nevertheless.
| All me N1tionS Linked.
Frowning or hopeful. every man OF lead
| ership in any line of thought or effor
! must now look beyond the limits of hi.
| own country. The student OF sociolog,
| 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 pa,
heed to the studies of men who live In
/ each of the other cities. When in Amer
lea We study labor problems and attempt
| to deal with subjects such as life insur,
ance for waSe-workers. We turn to ses
what you do here in Germany. and vi
also turn 10 see what the far-oR com
monwealth Of New Zealand Ii doing
When a great German scientist Ii warrinl
against the most dreaded enemies Of man
kind. creatures of infinitesimal size which
the microscope reveals In his blood. h,
may spend his holidays of study in cen
trail Africa or in eastern Asia. and h.
must know what il accomplished in tn,
laboratories of Tokyo. just as he mus
know the details Of that practical appiica
ton Of science which has changed tn.
lsthmus of Panama from a death-traI
t-s~ At L.. IL H&L