Rocky Ford enterprise., 1910-05-13


Roosevelt appeared Thursday before
an audience that tested the capacity
OF the aula at the University Of Berlin,
and delivered lecture ON 1.-THE World
Movement" He spoke in English and
was listened to with the deepest in
terest.
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:
At last. . little over 100 years
ago. the movement towards a world civili-
zation 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 cuImi-
mated in the discovery of America: and
after these two epochal feats had begun
to produce their full effects in material
and intellectual life. It 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 q tremendous re-
Iect 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 It: and for the nrst
time experimentation was used as Q checl
upon observation and theorixntion. Since
then. century by century. tho changes
have increased in rapidty and complex
ity. and have attained their maximum ip
both respects during the century Just
past.
Instead of being directed BY one or two
dominant peoples. a. was the case with
all similar movements Of the past, the
new movement was shared by many DIFF
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
in mastery over mechanical activity and
natural resources. All Of this has been
accompanied and signniized by an i'm
mense outburrt of energy and restless
Initiative. The result IL varied As Il IL
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 trfumphs in orEanixa-
tion and mechanical invention. they ac-
as compared with their former rivnis. To
these two facts II primarily due the
further fnct that for the nrst time there
Is really something that approaches q
world civilization. a world movement The
spread Of the European peoples since the
days OF Ferdinand tho Catholic and Ivan
the Terrible has been across every sea
and over every continent In places the
conauests have been cthnic: that is. there
has been a new wandering of the peoples.
and new commemorative have sprung up
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 n small caste Of soldiers and ad-
ministrators. 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 Mt
all. but where an alien people Is profound
ly and radically changed by the mere I'M
pact of western civilization
There 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
lization Of the European type now cxer-
cises n more or less profound effect over
practically the entire world. There are
hooks and corn>rs to which II has not yet
penetrated: but there In at present no
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
a relatively small portion Of the worlds
surface. Over much the larger part of tho
world the process Of change and develop
r,ent was absolutely unaffected by any
tn Rnv
and those communities the play Of whose
influence was felt in action and reaction.
md in inter-action. among themselves.
were grouped Immediately around the
world Is bound together as never before:
the bonds are sometimes those Of hatred
rather than love. but they are bonds
nevertheless.
: All the Nations Linked.
FrowninE or hopeful. every man Of lead
ership in any line Of thought or effort
must now look beyond the limits OF his
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
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 waGe-workerr. we turn to sec
what you do here In Germany. and We
also turn to see what the far-on COM
monwealth of New Zealand Is doing.
When a great German scientist Is warning
against the most dreaded enemies OF man
kind. creatures Of inhnitesimal size which
the microscope reveals In his blood. he
may spend his holidays Of study In CEN
trai Africa or in eastern Asia: and ne
must know what Is accomplished In the
laboratories Of Tokyo. Just as he must
know the details of that practical appiica-
ton Of science which has changed the
1sthmus of Panama from a death-trap
into what is almost a health resort. Every
progressive in China Is striving to intro
duce western methods Of education ana
administration. and hundreds of European
and American books are now translated
into Chis.se. The influence Of European