The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-05-13
DELIVERED ADDRESS BEFORE
univERsiTY YESTERDAY
KAISER PRESENT.
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Honorary Degree Conferred on Roose-
velt-Emperor Presents Him
With Pictures ana Book
About The Army.

BeSlin, May 1a.--Roosevelt today
delivered his address before the Uni
versity of Berlin. He received the
honorary degree Of doctor Of nhi,cs
Only. The Kaiser and members oi
the royal family were present. Roo;e,
welt and Kermit were guests tonight
of Chancellor Won Bethmann-Holwee
at dinner. Many notables ware pres
ent. A reception followed,
The emperor presented Roosevelt
with four water colors depicting the
general military in action, and four
books descriptive of the army.
The emperor leaves next Weanes-
day for London to attend King Ed
wards fuLeral.
Col. RooseveIt's Address.
"The play of new forces is as evi.
dent in the moral and spiritual world
as in the world of the mind aod the
body. Forces for good and forces for
evil are everywhere evident, each
acting with hundred or thousand
fold the intensity with which it acted
In former ages. Over the whole earth
the swing OF the pendulum grows
more and more rapid, the handspring
coils and spreads at rate constantly
quickening, the whole word move
ment is Of constantly accelerating
velocity.
"ln this movement theire are signs
Of much that bodies IN. The machin-
cry is so highly geared, the tension
and strain are so great, the effort
and the output have alike so in
|Srea$ed t61t there Is cause to dreal
The ruin that would come from any
great accident, from any breakdown,
and also the ruin that may come from
the mere wearing out OF the machine
itself The only previous civilization
with which our modern civilization
IAN be in any way compared is that
Of Graeco-Roman civilization, extend
ing say from the Athens of Themis.
tocles to the Rome OF Marcus Aurelius
Many Of the forces ana tendencies
which were then at work are at WORK
now. knowledge, luxury, and refine
ment, wide material conquests, ter
ritorial administration on a vast
scale, an increase in the mastery OF
mechanical appliances and in applied
science-all these mark our ciyiliza
tion that fourished in the Mediter
ranean lands twenty centuries ago;
and they preceded the downfall of the
older civilization. Yet the differences
are many, and some fthem are quite
as striking as the similarities. The
single fact that the old civilization
was based upon slavery shows the
chasm that separates the two. Let
me point out one further and very
significant difference in the develop
ment of the two civilizations, a diff
ference so obvious that it is astonish
ing that it has not been dwelt upon
by men of letters.
One Of the prime dangers of civili
cation has always been its tendency
to cause the los of the yerile fighting
virtues, of the fighting edge. When
men get too comfortable and lead
too luxurious lives there is always
danger less the softness eat like ar
acid into their manliness OF fiber. The
barbarian, because of the very condi
tions of his life, is forced to keer
and develop certain hardy quali-~s
which the man of civilization tends
Ito lose, whether he be clerk, factory
hand, merchant, or even certain
| type of farmer. Now | will not asert
that In modern civilized society these
tendencies have been wholly over
come, but there has ben a much
| more successful effort to overcome
them than was the case in the early
civilizations.
What is the lesson Of today? Ar,