Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-07

Nall, following which Roosevelt
.urried visits to the leading COL
nd other places of historic in
&and was entertained at luncheon
10y tLE American Club.
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 Mr.. 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
we designate as species, forms, races
and the highly complex and composite
entities which rise before our minds
when we speak of nations and civil
hzations. It 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 sew
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-
Iracy, and In other cases we cannot SO
much as hazard guess as to why a
given change occurred.
,AnaIooies In Human History.
4 C6ntinuiug, MI: Roosevelt said In
ipaTt:c
Now, a. to Ill Of these pnenonena in the
revolution Of species. there are. II not
rho1n0lostes. at least certain ana1ogteSs in
h11s history OF human societies, in the
his1ofy OF the rise to prominence, OF tho
dsvsJepment ana change, Of the tenn
peEary dominance. and death or trans
formation, of the groups OF varying kind
ivhich form races or nations.
A. in biology. 80 IN human history. a
new form may result from the Specialize
don Of lons-sxisting and hitherto very
MISUNDERSTANDING gsneralized or nom
specialized form; as. for instance. when
. bsrbaric race from a variety of causes
s'sddsnly devslops 9 more complex cult
walton and civilization. That Is what oc-
tcsrrsd, for instance. in western Europe
nnsnS the centuries OF the Teutonic and
aatsr the Scandinavian ethnic overdows
from tho north. All the modern countries
Sf western Europe are descended from the
states created by these northern invaders.
vhsn first created they. could be called
fensW or young" states in the sense
that part or all Of the people composing
them were descended from races that
hitherto had not been civilized at all. and
Chat therefore for the first time entered
on the career Of civilized communities.
In the southern part OF western Europe
The new states thus formed consisted in
bulk. Of the Inhabitants already in the land
under the Roman empire: and It was
here that the now Kingdoms first took
shape. Through reflex action their
3nduence then extended back into the cold
forests from which the invaders had come,
And Germany and Bcandinavia witnessed
II..he rise Of communities with essentially
the Same civilization a. their southern
nei4hbors: though in those communities,
unlike the southern -cosnnunitfes there
waDno infusion Of new blood, and in each
case the new civilized nation which gradu-
ally developed was composed entirely Of
same region had for ages lived the life Of
. slowly changing barbarism. The same
was true Of the Slavs and the slavonized
y1nns OF eastern Europe. when an infl-
tIation Of Scandinavian leaders from the
nsrth ana infiltration OF Byzantine
culture from the south Joined to produce
the changes which have gradually, out Of
tire little. slsv communities Of the forest
md the stenpe, formed the mighty Russian
supfrs Of to-day.
"Ne~" and ''Youns" Nations.
Again. the new form may represent
meEsly ., splitting Off from long estab-
lisAed, highly developed and specialized
nation. In tl1is4 case the nation is usually
spoken Of asa young" and is correctly
spoken OF - q new" nation: but the
term should always be used with clear
sense OF the difference between what is
e. tibed In, such case, and what is de-
ed by the same term in speaking of
viiseo nation Just developed from q |
arisns. Carthage and Syracuse were
citto4 compared with Tyre and Cor |
but the &afeSk g Phoentcian race was !
very sense Of the word as old in the |
city as in the old city. So, nowadays.
t1e or ManitobaiS new community |
AIRED with England or Scotland; but |
ncestrl type Of civilization ana Gull
Il as old in one case az in the other.
Course do not mean for a moment |
rsat changes are not produced by
ste fact that the old civilized race !
lsnly placed in surroundings where |
-, agaan to 80 through the work OF !
" the wilderness. work finished I
turtles before in the original
e.e s.ss:: ..:e-e1y mean thet !
AfSal history Is the same in each
e can rightly use the phrase "a
pie" In speaking Of Canadians
0altans, Americans or AfrIkanders.
use 1t In an entirely different
EjE,m that in which we use 1t when
-, Of such communities as those
Osby the northmen and their de-
1fdur1ng that period Of astonish.
til which saw the descendants Of
~ ssa-thteves conquer and trans-
=, HmAndy, Sicily, and the British
V4we use It in An entirely different
pm that in which we use It when
sof the new states that grew up
eE Warsaw, Kief. NevEorod, and
~ the Wild savagss Of the
;i,e i...ss s:::=:= =::::::=.e. |,
and stumbiinsiy upward to
osAJsi1esss q citia ANA to form
6vsrnments. The kingdoms Of
AgnA and Alfred wsrs '.nau."