The Prescott daily news., 1910-06-07
ROOSEVELT GIVES
 ROMANES LECTURE
Farmer President of United
 States al Oxford
LORD CURZ0N IN THE CHAIR
ch.ldonian Theater Crowded With Distinguished People When Amer ican Talks on "BiologicaI An
 aoqes in History"

Oxford. England. June 7.-The Ro- uones lecture by Theodore Roosevelt, which was to have been delivered on May 1S but which was postponed on account of the death of King Edward, was given today by the distinguished American. The Sheldonian theater WAS filled to it's capacity by notable nersons and Oxford students and the lecture. which was on Biological AnalogeS in History" was we'll re- ceiyed. Lord Curzon. chancellor of the university. presided.
 In seeking to penetrate the causes of the mysteries that surround not only mankind but all life. both In the present and the past, said MT. Roose- welt. we see strange analogies in the phenomena of life and death, of birth growth and change, between those physical groups of animal life which xe designate as species. forms. races and the highly complex and composite entities which rise before our minds when We speak of nations and civi- lizations IL is this study. he assert ed. that has given science its present day prominence. and the historian of mankind must work in the scientific spirit and use the treasure-houses of science
 To illustrate. the lecturer took sev- eral instances of the development of new species and the extinction of spe- cies in the history of mammalian life. showing that in some cases the causes can be traced with considerable accu- racy. and in other cases We cannot so much as hazard a guess as to why a given change occurred.
 Anaogies In Human History.
 part:
 Now, as to all of these phenomena in the lutiou of species there are, fl not Aomciogies al least certain analoEies. in the history of human societies in the history of the rise to prominence. of the development and change, of the tenn porary dominance. and death or trans formation of the groups of varying kind which form races or nations
 As in biology. so in human history. a new form may result from the specializa- uon of long existing and hitherto very sowly-changtng geueralized or non specialized form as. for Instance. when barbarlc race from a variety of causes suddenly develops a more complex culti- walton and civilization. That is what oc- cured. for instance, in western Europe ourlng the centuries of the Teutonic and later the Scandinavian ethnic overfows rom the north. All the modern countries ol western Europe Ire descended from the sdtes created by these northern invaders. mhen hrst created they could be called new or young" states in the sense uat part or an of the people composing ,neh were descended from races that mherto had not been civilized at all, and ud' therefore for the first time entered VI t'e career of civilized communities AT ue southern part of western Europe u'e new states thus formed consisted in oulk of the inhabitants already in the land Sef Sl'uef the Roman empire: and 1t was st "aI the new kingdoms first took tPe' through a reflex action their ,,.'uei'e then extended back into the cold .U'ssS rom which the invaders had come. s a"u Hermany and Scandinavia witnessed ,t e rse Of communities with essentially same civilization as their southern p,ln. 'AouSh in those communities. ,"e southern communities. there cosa @s no infusion of new blood. and in each am,, g'e new civilized nation which gradu- man, ueVeloped was composed entirely of san'a or the same race which in the sio,,,l s'on had for ages lived the life of wos NnanSinE barbarian. The same Ftnn. ot the Slavs and the Slavonized ,r,., oi eastern Europe. when an infil- north VI scandinavian leaders from the cul,n.. ana infltration of Byzantine hs os rom the south joined to produce se. S,'nanses ,'tt which have gradually. out of