COLONEL ROOSEVELT IN ENGLAND. 



merely that the future writers of history, without losing the qualities 

 which have made those men great, shall also utilize the new facts 

 and new methods which science has put at their disposal. 



" Rome fell by attack from without, only because the ills within 

 her own borders had grown incurable. What is true of your coun- 

 try, my hearers, is true of my own; while we should be vigilant 

 against foes fn^m without, yet we need never really fear them so 

 long as we safe-guard ourselves against the enemies within our own 

 households; and these enemies are our own passions and follies. 

 Free peoples can escape being mastered by others only by being able 

 to master themselves. 



INTERNATIONAL INTERESTS INVOLVED. 



''We, Americans, and you people of the British Isles, alike, need 

 ever to keep in mind that, among the many qualities indispensable 

 to the success of a great democracy, and second only to a high and 

 stern sense of duty, of moral obligation, are self-knowledge and self- 

 mastery. You, my hosts, and I may not agree in all our views ; some 

 of you would think me a very radical democrat — as, for the matter 

 of that, I am; and my theory of imperialism would probably suit the 

 anti-imperialists as little as it would suit a certain ty])e of feeble 

 imperialist. But there are some points on which we must all agree 

 if e think soundly. 



" The precise form of government, democratic or otherwise, is 

 the instrument, the tool, with which we work. It is important to 

 have a good tool. But, even if it is the best possible, it is only a tool. 

 No implement can ever take the place of the guiding intelligence 

 that wields it. 



" There are questions that we of the great civilized nations are 

 ever tempted to ask of the future. Is our time of growth drawing 

 to an end? Are we as nations soon to come under the rule of that 

 great law of death which is itself but part of the great law of life? 

 None can tell. Forces that we can see and other forces that are 

 hidden or that can but dimly be apprehended are at work all around 

 us, both for good and for evil. 



