COLONEL ROOSEVELT IN ENGLAND. 



"After the French Revolution in 1830, Niebuhr hazarded the 

 guess that all civilization was about to go down wdth a crash, that 

 we were all about to share the fall of third and fourth century. 

 Rome — a respectable but painfully overworked comparison. The 

 fears once expressed by the follow^ers of Alalthus as to the future of 

 the world have proved groundless as regards the civilized portion of 

 the world ; it is strange indeed to look back at Carlyle's prophecies 

 of some seventy years ago, and then think of the teeming life of 

 achievement, the life of conquest of every kind, and of noble effort 

 crowned by success, which has been ours for the two generations 

 since he complained to high Heaven that all the tales had been told 

 and all the songs sung, and that all the deeds really worth doing had 

 been done. 



A NATION'S REVITALIZATION. 



" A nation that seemingly dies may be born again ; and even 

 though in the physical sense it die utterly, it may yet hand down a 

 history of heroic achievement, and for all time to come may pro- 

 foundly influence the nations that arise in its place by the impress of 

 what it has done. Best of all is it to do our part well, and at the 

 same time to see our blood live young and vital in men and women 

 fit to take up the task as we lay it down ; for so shall our seed inherit 

 the earth. 



" While freely admitting all of our follies and weaknesses of 

 to-day, it is yet mere perversity to refuse to realize the incredible 

 advance that has been made in ethical standards. I do not believe 

 that there is the slightest necessary connection between any awaken- 

 ing of virile force and this advance in the moral standard, this 

 growth of the sense of obligation to one's neighbor and of reluctance 

 to do that neighbor wrong. 



" Every modern civilized nation has many and troublesome 

 problems to solve within its own borders, problems that arise not 

 merely from juxtaposition of poverty and riches, but especially from 

 the self-consciousness of both poverty and riches. Each nation 

 must deal with these matters in its own fashion, and yet the spirit in 



