The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-05-13

BY Associated Press.
Berlin. May IL. Speaking before
the University Of Berlin today Colonel
Roosevelt took as the subject matter
OF his lecture 'sThe World Movement, :"
Colonel Roosevelt said:
The play of new forces is as evi-
dent in the moral and spiritual world
as In the world of the mind and the
body. Forces for good and forces for
evil are everywhere evident each act
ing 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 main spring
coils and spreads at a rate constantly
quickening, the whole world move
ment is of constantly accelerating
velocity.
In this movement there are signs
Of much that BODIES ill The machin-
cry is SO highly geared. the tension
and strain are 50 great, the effort and
the output have alike so increased,
that there is cause to dread the ruin
that would come from any great acci-
dent. 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 can be in any
way compared is that period Of
Graeco-Roman civilization extending,
say, from the Athens of 'Themistocies
to the Rome of Marcus Aurelius.
Many of the forces and tendencies
which were then at work are at work
now Knowledge. luxury, and refine
ment wide material conQuests. ter-l
ritorial administrator on a vast scale
an increase in the mastery of meehan-
ical appliances and in applied science
-all these mark our civilization as
they marked the wonderful civiliza-
tion that ilourished in the Mediterran-
earn lands twenty centuries ago: and
they preceded the downfall of the old
er civilization. Yet the differences
are many, and some OF them 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 aud very signi-
hcant difference in the development
Of the two civilizations. difference
SO obvious that 1t Is astonishing that
1t has not been dwelt upon by men Of
letters.
One OF the prime dangers of ciyili-
zation has always been its tendency
to cause the loss Of the virile lighting
virtues, of the fighting edge. when
men get too comfortable and lead too
luxurious lives there is always dan
ger less the softness eat like an acid
into their manlinesa 81 fibeE The bar.
Darian, because Of the very conditions
OF his life, is forced to keep ard de-
velop certain hardy qualities which
the man of civilization tends to lose.
whether he be clesk. factory hand.
merchant, or even certain type of
farmer. Now will not assert that in
modern civilized society these tenden-
cies have been wholly overcome; but
there has been much more success
ful effort to overcome them than was
the case in the early civilizations.
What is the lesson to us today +?
Are we to go the way Of the older
civilizations? The immense increase
in the area Of civilized activity today.
SO that it is nearly coterminous with
the worlds surface; the immense in
crease IN the nultitddInous variety Of
its activities; the immense increase