Show E WILLIAM DONORS ROOSEVELT Listens to Lecture and Witnesses Conferring of Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Upon I T BERLIN B ERLEN May My M y 12 Theodore Boose Roosevelt velt former President Pres dent of the United States delivered a lecture today on the topic The World Move Movement Movement Movement ment at tile tee University of 0 Berlin and a nd received from tho university the honorary degree of or Doctor of Philosophy Emperor William honored the occasion with his bis presence It was the first time the emperor empero r had graced a conferment and d the courtesy was significant in iii view vie of o the t he fact that the German court is in mourning for King Edward I The ceremony of conferring the de degree degree degree I gree was staged and conducted with impressive simplicity There were no I flags lags or emblems of royalty and the government and the walls of ot the Aula I were bare save for the rows of busts of Germanys famous scholars and scientists The only touch of color was fur furnished furnished furnished by the senators of the university I sity with Ith their robes of scarlet and blue and the five heads of the stu student student student dent corps who wore blue jackets white breeches Jack boots and parti colored sashes Colonel Roosevelt said The play of new ne forces Is as evi evident evident evident dent in the moral and nd spiritual world as in the world of the mind and body Forces for good and forces for evil are everywhere evident each acting with a hundred or a thousand fold the intensity with which It acted in for former former mer ages Over the whole earth the swing of the pendulum grows more rapid the mainspring coils colls and spreads at a rate constantly quicken quickening ing lug the whole world movement is of constantly accelerating velocity Sign Sl That Bode Dode Ill III IllIn In this movement there are signs of much that bodes bode ill The machin machinery ery cry is so 10 o highly geared the tension are so 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 accident accident accident dent from any breakdown and also that may come from the mere waring w out of the machinery itself Itsel The T e only previous civilization with which our modern civilization can be beIn beIn bein In any ny way comp red is that period Continued on Page Two EMPEROR WILLIAM AM HONORS ROOSEVELT EVELT Continued C From Fr m Page Oae One of ot civilization extending extend extending extendIng ing say from the Athens of cles 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 refinement refinement refinement ment wide material conquests terri tern territorial tonal administration on oa a avast vast scale an an Increase in the tha mastery of mechanical mechanical ical appliances and in applied science all these mark our civilization as they marked the wonderful civilization civilization tion that flourished in the Mediterranean ean call lands twenty centuries ago and they preceded the downfall of ot the older civilization Yet Tet the differences are many and an some come of them are quite as striking as the tha similarities The single fact that the theold old civilization was based upon slavery shows the chasm that separates separ tes the two Let me point out one further and very sig significant difference di e e In the development of oL the two civilizations a difference so obvious that it iti Is astonishing that t It has not been dwelt upon by men m n of ot letters One Oae oe Prime Danger One of ot the prime eprime dangers of ot civil civilization ration has h S always been f eU its tendency to cause the loss of ot the virile fighting virtues of the fighting edge When men get too comfortable and lead too luxurious lives Uv there Is always danger lest the eat like an acid Into tl their manliness of ot fiber The barbar barbarian barbarIan barbarian ian because of the very conditions of his life is forced to keep and arid develop devel p certain hardy harch qualities which the tho man manof manot manof of ot civilization tends to lose whether be ho be clerk blerk factory hand merchant or even a certain type of farmer Now I will not assert rt that in modern civil civilized civilized society these tendencies have ib been en wholly overcome but there has been a much more successful effort to overcome ov them than was the case in inthe inthe the Ithe early barly civilizations What is the lesson to us today Are i we to go the way of ot the older civili civilizations civilizations The Immense Increase in the therea area rea of civilized activity today so that It Is nearly coterminous s with the worlds surface the Immense increase in inthe Inthe inthe the multitudinous variety of its activities activities ties the Immense Increase In the velocity Velocity ve velocity of the world movement are all these to t mean merely that the crash will be all the more complete and terrible ter terrible terrible when it comes We cannot be certain that the answer will be in the negative but of this we can be certain certain certain tain that we shall not go down in ruin unless we deserve and earn our end There is no necessity for us to fall we can hew bew out our destiny for ourselves If only we have the wit and the courage and the honesty World orld Growing Better Personally I do not believe that our civilization will falL faIL I think that on the whole we have grown better and not worse I think that on the whole the future holds more for us than even the great past has held But assuredly tie the dreams of golden glory In the future will not come true unless high of fit heart and strong of hand by our own mighty deeds we make them come true We cannot afford af afford afford ford to develop any an one set of qualities qualities ties any anyone one set of ot activities at the cost of seeing others equally necessary necessary necessary sary atrophied Neither the military efficiency of at the Mongol the business ability of ot the Phoe Phoenician Phoenician nor the subtle and polished In of the Greek availed to avert destruction We the men of ot today and of ot the future need eed many qualities If we are to do our work well We AVe need first of o all and most Important of all the qualities which stand at the base of individual of family life Ufe the funda fundamental fundamental fundamental mental and essential qualities the homely everyday vir tues if the average man will not work If he has not In him the will willand willand and the power Dower to be a good husband and father tather If it the average woman Is not nota a good housewife a good gOO 1 of many healthy children then the state will topple to will go dOWn gown no matter what l may be its ita brilliance of at artistic development de or material achievement But these homely qualities are not enough Compliment for or German Germans There rh re must In n addition be that power the German people have shown h wn in n such signal fashion during the last h Moreover the things of the spirit a irit are even more im important than the the things of the body We can well do without the hard bard Intolerance Intolerance into erance cranes and arid intellectual barren barrenness barrenness ness of what was worst in the theo logical systems of the past but there has never been greater need of a high and fine tine religious spirit than at the present time So while we we can laugh at some of the preten pretensions pretensions pretensions of modern philosophy In its vari various various various ous branches it t would be worse than folly roily on our part to Ignore our need of Intellectual leadership Your own great Frederick once said that If he wished to punish a province he would leave It to be governed by ers the sneer had In it an element of ot Justice and yet no one better than the great Frederick knew the value of philosophers the value of ot men of ot science men of letters men of at art It would be a bad thing indeed to accept Tolstoy as a guide in social and moral matters but it would also be a bad thing not to have Tolstoy not to profit by the lofty side of ot his teachings There are plenty of scientific men whose hard arrogance whose cynical materialism whose dogmatic ance put them t em on n a level with the bigoted medieval ecclesiasticism which they denounce Yet our debt to men Is Incalculable and our of today would have reft from it all that which most mot highly distin it If the work of the great masters of science during the past four centuries were now undone or for gotten Never has philanthropy hu seen such development as now and though we must all aU be ware of the folly and the viciousness no worse than folly which marks the Lehl believer eSi In the P of man when his heart runs away with his head or when vanity usurps he the place ot of f co conscience yet we must remember 1 also that ati It s only by br working along the ho lines u laid i down by the by the lovers of mankind that we can be sure of ot lifting our tion to a higher and more Permanent n plane ni of at than was ever at by any an preceding civilization Unjust war Is to be abhorred but w wt to the nation that does not make m ke ready read t to hold its In own time of need against all Who would harm It and woe thrice over o er to the nation In which the average man loses the fighting edges loses the power to serve as a soldier if the day of need should arise It is no impossible dream to build up a civilization in ln which morality ethical development and a true feeling feeling of brotherhood shall all alike be bedl d dl from false sentimentality and from the rancorous and evil passions which curiously enough so often ac accompany accompany accompany company professions of sentimental tal at to the rights of man In which a high material development In the things of at the body shall be achieved a without subordination of ot the things of the soul in which there shall be a genuine desire for peace and Justice without wit out loss of those virile qualities without which no love of peace or Justice shall avail any race In which the fullest development of scientific research the great distinguishing fea feature feature feature ture of our present civilization yet not Imply a belief that intellect can ever take the place of character for tor from the standpoint of the nation as of the tha Individual it is character char that Is Js the one vital tal possession Finally this world movement of civilization this movement which is isnow Isnow Isnow now felt throbbing in every corner of the globe should bind the nations of the world together while yet leaving unimpaired that love of ot country In the Individual citizen which in the present stage of the worlds progress Is essen essential essential essential to the worlds You my hearers and I who speak to you belong to different nations Under modern conditions the books we read the news sent by telegraph to our newspapers the strangers we meet half haIt of the things we hear and do each day dey all tend to bring us into touch with other peoples Each people peo people people can ca do justice to itself only If it it does Justice to others but each peo people people D e can do its part in the world move movement movement movement ment for lor or all aU only If it first does ita its duty daty within Its own household The good citizen must be a n good citizen of his own country first before he can with advantage be a citizen of the world at large I wish you well I believe in you and your future I admire and wonder at the extra extraordinary extraordinary extraordinary ordinary greatness and variety of your achievements in BO so many and such widely different fields and my admiration admira admiration tion and regard are all the greater and not the less because I am so profound a believer in the institutions and the people of my own land H |