ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE 

 UNIVERSITY OF CAIRO, 



By colonel ROOSEVELT, 



March !28, 19IO. 



It is to me a peculiar pleasure to speak to-day under 

 such distinguished auspices as yours, Prince Fouad,^ 

 before this National University, and it is of good 

 augury for the great cause of higher education in Egypt 

 that it should have enlisted the special interest of so 

 distinguished and eminent a man. The Arabic-speak- 

 ing world produced the great University of Cordova, 

 which flourished a thousand years ago, and was a source 

 of light and learning when the rest of Europe was 

 either in twilight or darkness. In the centuries following 

 the creation of this Spanish Moslem University, Arabic 

 men of science, travellers, and geographers — such as the 

 noteworthy African traveller, Ibn Batuta, a copy of 

 whose book, by the way, I saw yesterday in the library 

 of the Alhazar^ — were teachers whose works are still to 

 be eagerly studied ; and I trust that here we shall see 

 the revival, and more than the revival, of the conditions 

 that made possible such contributions to the growth of 

 civilization. 



This scheme of a National University is fraught with 

 literally untold possibilities for good to your country. 



^ Prince Fouad is the uncle of the Khedive. 

 - The great Moslem University of Cairo. 



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