510 COLONEL ROOSEVELT GERMANY. 



" Yesterday I was in the open air university of the German army 

 and sat at the foot of the great master of that university." 



The Colonel said that the German Emperor had often been held 

 up before him as a statesman who was doing things which he, the 

 speaker, should do. 



" I remember," he added, " that my friend, Dr. Pritchard, then 

 President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Boston, 

 told me of the Emperor's interest in and knowledge of technical 

 education. 



" While in Africa I used to think that there was something 

 wrong with the mail if it did not bring me a letter from Benjamin 

 Ide Wheeler telling me of his admiration for some feature of Ger- 

 man life and of the Emperor's extraordinary qualities and kind- 

 ness." 



Then he launched into his lecture on " The World Movement," 

 sketching the ancient and mediaeval civilizations, pointing to the 

 causes of their rise and fall, and drawing lessons to show how the 

 civilization of to-day might endure. 



DID NOT BELIEVE CIVILIZATION WOULD FALL. 



He declared he did not believe this civilization would fall ; that 

 it was in the power of the peoples of to-day to preserve their culture 

 and achievements for all time. They had, he declared, the power to 

 hew their fate, if they had only the wit and courage to do so. 



Pie dwelt upon the necessity of keeping keen the '' fighting 

 edge," and asserted that development must be broadly along all 

 lines. Arms must not be forgotten for science and commercialism 

 must not supplant entirely the " virile fighting virtues." He showed 

 how Greece and Rome had decayed because mercenaries had sup- 

 planted the citizen soldiers of pioneer and glorious days. He 

 pointed with emphasis to the exactly opposite tendency of modern 

 days, illustrating with the American Revolution and the Civil 

 War. 



Politics were purer, he declared, and were not used so much 

 now as in the past for financial gain, although wealth still had great 

 influence in public affairs. In another digression from his set 



