The Carlisle independent., 1910-04-28
DUTIES 0F CITIZEN
Colonel Roosevelt Lectures on
 This Subject in Paris.
BIG AUDIENCE IN SORBONNE
Savants, Professors and Students
 Hear the Ex-President's Views on
 the Responsibilities of the lndivd-

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- zenship in a Republic It was an ap- preciative audience and the lecturer wss frequently applauded. Mr. Roosevelt said:
 Foundations of Our Republic.
 This was the most famous univer- city of medieval Europe at time when no one dreamed that there was 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 a hard struggle with the iron unfriendliness of the Indian haunted land, were laying the founda- tions of what has now become the giant republic of the west To con- quer continent, to tame the shaggy
 
 warfare; and the generations engaged in 1t cannot keep, still less add to. the stores of garnered wisdom which were therein, and which are still in the hands of their brethren who dwell in the old land. To conquer the wilderness means to wrest victory from the same hostile forces with which mankind struggled in the inn memorial infancy of our race. The primeyal 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 it has striven upward toward civilization. In conditions so primitive there can be but primitive culture
 Building the Higher Life.
 As the country grows. it's people, who have won success in so many lines. turn back to try to recover the DOS sessions of the mind and the spirit. which perforee 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 new life. realizing, some times dimly, sometimes clear-sighted- ly, that the life of material gain. whether for nation or an individual. Is of value only as a foundation. only as there is added to it the uplift that comes from devotion to loftier ideals The new life thus sought can in part be developed afresh from what is round about in the new world but 1t 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 ci wisdom and learning. such as this where speak today.
 It is a mistake for any nation merely to copy another; but it is an even greater mistake, it is proof of weak ness in any nation. not to be anxious to learn from another. and willing and able to adapt that learning to the new national conditions and make it fruit ful and productive therein. It is for us of the new world to sit at the feet of the Gtmaliel of the old; then if we have the right stuff 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 ot individual citizenship. the one subjeGt of vital importance to you my hearelH, and to me and my conn. trymen, bt cause you and we are eiti zens Of grest democratic republics. A democratic republic such as each of ours-an effort to realize in it's fuu 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 to other nations: surely one of the most important is the lesson her whole his tory teaches, that high artistic and literary development is compatible with notable leadership in arms and statescraft. The brilliant callantry or the French soldier has for many cen turies 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 arr ist and man of letters. and every man of science able to appreciate that mar yelous 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 curiously illustrated by the fact that the earliest masterpiece in modern tongue is the splendid French epic which tells of Hollands doom and the
 Charm In Expression.