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PAOH TOO THE EVENING TIMES: RALEIGH, N. C, THURS DAY, MAY 12, 1910, . fit Utt U IU i lit In fu vH4 'in ii't Mi Hi 65 DD-IF " CO. lor Summer Shoes Present Combina tion Attractive ness Style Fit Wear. One thing about our shoes is their flexi bility, and that is what everybody now wants in a shoe. Our Shoes fit easy, because-they are made on properly and sci entifically adjusted lasts. They are made of the best materials, the best uppers, flex ible soles, smooth in nersoles. Our shoes don't have to be broken in. We carry full lines to fit every one, for men, women, boys and girls, and chil dren of all ages 123-125 Fayetteville Ct. Eager F.Icb Surrcsnds Rcose- (Continued From Page One.), many times fragments of the address were heard through the windows by the waiting crowds. In Mr. Roose velt's appearance after the ceremon ies in the hall there was a rush. The great crowd seemed to surge forward as a body. . The Americans on the inner 'fringe led the advance, rushing ahead pell mell and taking the guards by sur prise. They clustered about Mr. Roosevelt in a group that looked much like a football scrimmage, and Mr. Roosevelt had need of all his strenuoslty to keep from being swamped under the onrush. He was forced to shake bands with several, and escaped being lifted on the shoulders of the foremost, until the mounted men arrived and cleared a space about him. ; The speech in full follows: I very highly appreciate the chance to address the University of Berlin in the year that closes its lirst centenary of existence. It is difficult for you in the Old World fully to appreciate the feelings of a man who comes from a nation still in the making, to a coun try with an immemorial historic past: and especially is this the case when that country, with its ancient past toe- hind it, yet looks with proud confidence into the future, and in the present shows all the abounding vigor of lusty youth. Such is the case with Germany. More than a thousand years have pass ed since the Roman Empire of the west became in fact a German Empire. Throughout mediaeval times the Em pire and the Papacy were the two cen tral features in the history of the Oc- jdent. With the Ottos and the Henrys began the slow rise of that western life which has shaped modern Europe, and therefore ultimately the whole modern world. Their task was to organize so ciety and to keep it from crumbling to pieces. They were castle-builders, city- founders, road-makers; they battled to bring order out of the seething turbu lence around them: and at the same ime they first beat back heathendom and then slowly wrested from it Its possessions. After the downfall of Rome and the breaking in sunder of the Roman Em pire, the first real crystallization of the forces that were working for a new uplift of civilization in western Europe was round the Karling House, and above all, round the great Emperor, Karl the Great, the seat tf whose Em pire, was at Aachen. Under the Karl- ings the Arab and the Moor were driven back beyond the Pyrenees; the last of the old heathen Germans were forced into Christianity, and the Avars steppes, who had long held tented dominion in Middle Europe, were ut terly destroyed. . With the break-up of the Karling Empire came choas once more, and a fresh inrush of savagery; Vikings from the frozen North, and new hordes of outlandish riders from Asia. It was the early Emperors of Germany proper who quelled these bar barians; in their time Dane and Norse man and Magyar became Christians, and most of the Slav peoples as well, so that Europe began to take on a shape which we can recognize today. Since then the centuries have rolled by, with strange alternations of fortune. now well-nigh barren, and again great with German achievement In arms and in government, in science and the arts. The center of power shifted hither and thither within German lands; the great house of Hohenzollern rose, the house which has at last seen Germany spring into a commanding position in the very forefront among the nations cif mankind. To this ancient land, with its glot- ious past and splendid present, to this land of many memories and of eager hopes. I come from a, young nation, which is by blood akin to, and yet different from, each of the great na tions -of Middle and Western Europe; which has inherited or acquired much from each, but is changing and devel oping every inheritance and acquisi tion into something new and strange. The German strain in our blood is large, for almost from the beginning there has been a large German ele ment among the successive waves of newcomers whose children's children have been and are being fused into the American nation; and I myself trace my origin to that branch of the Low Dutch stock which raised Holland out of North Sea. Moreover, we have taken from you. not only much" of the blood that runs through bur veins, but much of the thought that shapes our minds. For generations American scholars have flocked to your universi ties, and, thanks to the wtee fore sight of his Imperial Majesty the pres ent Emperor, the intimate and friendly connection between the two countries is now in every way closer than it has ever been before. Germany is pre-eminently a country in which the world movement of today in all of its multitudinous aspects is plainly visible. The life of this Uni versity covers the period during which that movement has spread until it is felt throughout every continent; while its velocity has been constantly ac celerating, so that the face of the world has changed, and is now chang ing, as never before. 1 It Is therefore fit and appropriate here to speak on this subject. When, -ln the slow procession of the ages, man was developed on this plan et, the change worked by his appear ance was at first slight. Further ages passed. While he groped and struggled by infinitesimal degrees upward throughout the loflter grades of sav agery; for. the general; law Is that life which is advanced and complex, what ever its nature, changes more quick ly than simpler and .less, advanced forms. The . life of. savages changes and advances with extreme slowness, and groups of savages Influence one an other but little. The first life of com munities which we call civilisation marked a period when man had al ready long been by far the most Im portant creature, on the planet. The hHtory of the living world has become, i In fact, the history of man, arid there fore something totally different In ..kind as weU at in degree from what "it had 1 been before. There are interesting an- ' Mil ssV -T!' SBF . IHTT Ml II is I . r.U.ft' Ulivrwv 1 1C CHflu'tfriTi. ?! 1 -1 THE . . SUPERIORITY OF Snowdrift Hogless Lard over hog lard,-and over all lard com pounds, is universally conceded. Gold medals- the highest honors, awarded by impartial, unprejudiced judges for superior excellence. to" PURE AS THE. 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So local were these Inventions that at the pres ent day there yet linger savage tribes, still fixed in the half-bestial life of an infinitely remote past, who know none of them except fire and the discovery and use of fire may have marked, not the beginning of civilization, -but the beginning of the savagery which sep arated man from brute. The first civilizations which left be hind them clear records rose in that hoary historic past which geologically is part of the immediate present and which is but a span's length from the present, even when compared only with the length of time that man has lived on this planet. These first civilisations were those which rose in Mesopotamia and the Nile Valley some six or eight thousand years ago. As far as we can see, they were well-nigh independent centers of cultural development,: and our knowledge is not such at present as to enable us to connect either with the early cultural movements In southwest ern Europe on the one hand, or1 in In. dia on the other, or with that Chinese civilization which has been so pro foundly affected by Indian influences. 1 With the downfall of these ancient civilisations' there sprang into promin ence those peoples with whom our own cultural history may be said to be gin. Those Ideas and influences in our lives which we can consciously trace back at all are In' the great majority of Instances to be traced to the. Jew. the Greek, or the Roman; and the ordinary . man, when he' speaks of the nations of antiquity, has in mind specifically :thee , three peoples al though, Judged even by the history of which wave redord theirs is a very modern antiquity indeed. The case ef the Jew was quite ex ceptional.' Bis was a small najlon, of little more consequence than the sister nations of Moab and Damascus, until all three, and the other petty states of the country, fell under the yoke of the alien. Then be survived, while all his fellow died. In the spiritual do main he .contributed religion which has been the most potent of all fac tors in its effect on the subsequent his tory of mankind; but none of his other contributions compare with the legacies left u. by the Greek and the Roman. The Graeco-Roman world saw a civil ization far more brilliant, far more varied and intense, than any that had gone before it, and one that affected a far larger share of the world's sur face. For the first time there began to be something which at least fore shadowed a "world movement" in the sense that It affected a considerable portion of the world's surface and that it represented what was incomparably the most important of all that was hap pening in world history at the time. In hreadth and depth the Held of In tellectual interest had greatly broad ened at the same time that the physi cal area affected by the civilization had similarly extended. Instead of a civil Ization affecting only one river valley or one nouk of the Mediterranean, there was a civilization which directly or indirectly influenced mankind from the Desert of Sahara '. to the Baltic, from the Atlantic Ocean to the West ernmost mountain chains that spring from the Himalayas.- Throughout most of this region there began to work certain influences which, though with widely varying Intensity, did neverthe less tend to affect a large portion of mankind. In many of the forms of art. there was great activity. In addition to great soldiers there were great ad ministrators and statesmen whose con- cern was with the fundamental ques tions of social and civil life. Nothing like the width and variety of Intellect ual achievement and understanding had ever before been known; for the first time we come across great intellectual leaders, great philosophers and writers, whose works are a part of all that is highest In modern thought, whose writ ings are as alive today as when they were first issued; And there Were others of even more daring and original tem per, a philosopher like Democritus,. a poet like Lucretius.' whose minds leap ed through the centuries and saw what none or the contemporaries saw,' but who were so hampered by thlr sur roundings that it was- physically, Im possible for them to leave to the later world much concrete addition to knowl edge. The civilisation was one of com paratively rapid change, viewed by the standard of. Babylon - and Memphis. There Was Incessant movement; and. moreover, the whole system went down with a crash to seeming destruction after a period short compared with that covered by , the reigns of a score of Egyptian dynasties, or with the time that elapsed between a Babylonian de feat by Elara and"4 War sixteen cen turies later which fully avenged It This civilisation flourished with brU" liant splendor. Then it fell. In its northern seats It was overwhelmed by a wave of barbarism from among those half-savage peoples from whom you and I, my hearers, trace our descent, In the south and east it was destroyed later, but far more thoroughly by in vaders of an utterly different type. Both conquests were of great importance; but It was the northern conquest which in its ultimate effects was of by .far the greatest importance. With the advent of the Dark Ages the movement of -course ceased, and it did not begin anew, for many cen turies; while a thousand years passed before It was once more in full swing, so far as European civilization, so far as the world civilization of today, is concerned. During all those centuries the civilized world, in our acceptation of the term, was occupied, as Its chief task. In slowly climbing back to the position from which It had fallen after the age of the Antonines.. Of course a general statement like this must be accepted with qualifications. There is no hsfrd and fast line between pne age or period and another, and in no age is either progress or retrogression unl versal in all things. There' were many points In which the Middle Ages, be cause of the simple fact that ' they were Christian,, surpassed the brilliant pagan civilization of the past: . and there are sOme Dolnts In which the civilization that succeeded them ! has sunk below the level of the ages which saw such mighty masterpieces Of poe try, of archltecture.eepeclally cathedral architecture end of serene spiritual and forceful lay leadership. But they were centuries of violence, rapine', and cruel Injustice; , and truth Was so little heeded that the noble and daring spirits who sought it., especially in Its sclen tlflc form, did so In deadly peril of the fagot hnd, the. halter. During this period there were several very, Important ewtra-European. move mentsi one or , two of which . deeply affected Europe. - Islam arose, and con quered far and wide, uniting funda mentally different races Into a brother hood of feeling which Christianity has never been Able to rival, and at the time of : ihe Crusades profoundly in fluencing European culture. It pro duced a clvlllsatloir-vof Its ownu brilliant- and here and. there useful, but hnnelMslv limited when compared with .the civilisation of which Ve ourselves are the- heirs, The great cultured peoples of southeastern and eastern Asia continued their checkered devel opment totally unaffected by, anu with out knowledge of, any Europeai , in fluence. , '. . " , . ' . ' ;.'" Throughout the whole period :vhei cm me against Europe, out of the "un known wastes of central Asia, an end less succession of strange and' terrible conqueror l-aces whose mission was mere destruction Hun nd Avar, Mon gol, Tartar, and Turk. These fierce and squalid tribes of warrior . horsemen flailed mankind ' with red . scourge's, wasted and destroyed, and then van ished from the ground they had over run. But in no way worth noting did they' count In the advance of man kind. . .-V , At last, a little over four hundred years agoj . the movement towards a world civilization took up its Inter rupted march. The beginning, of the modern movement may roughly be taken as synchronizing with the dis covery of printing, and with that series of bold sea" ventures which culminated in the discovery of America and after these two epochal feats had begun to produce their' full effects. in material and intellectual life. It became ,lnevlt able that civilization should thereafter differ not -only in degree but even In kind from all that had gone before. Immediately after the voyage of Col umbus and Vasco da Gama there began a tremendous religious lermeni; . me awakening of Intellect, went , hand In hand'wlth the moral uprising; the great names of Copernicus, ' Bruno, 'Kepler, and Galileo show that the mind of man was breaking the fetters that had cramped it; and for the first time px Derlmentation was used as a -chC'k upon,, observation and theorizatle'i Since- then, century by century, the changes have increased - In tapidiiy and complexity, and have attained their maximum In both' respects during the century Just past; . Instead of be ing directed by one, or two. dominant peoples, as was the case with all sim ilar movements of the. past' the new movement was shared by many different nations. . From every stand point it has been of Infinitely greater moment, than anything hitherto seen. Not in one but in many different peo ples -there has been.- extraordinary growth In wealth, In population,- ,in power pf organization, and In mastery over mechanical 'activity and natural resources. AU of this has been accom panied and signalised by ah-Immense outburst of energy and restless Initi ative. The result Is as varied, as It Is striking. -',; ' ' " , -;. "'.' There are of course, many, grades be tween these different types of Inf" ence, but the'net outcome of what has occurred during the last four, centuries Is that civilisation of ' the European type now exercises a fmore or less pro found effect over practically the en tire world. There are nooks and corn ers to which it hag not yet penetrated; but there' Is1 at lbresent rtoP largfe 'space of territory in whlch -the general move ment of civilised activity does not fnake itself more or leas felt. This represents something wholly different from what has ever hitherto been seen. ' In the greatest days of Roman dominion the Influence of Rome was. felt over only a relatively small portion of the world's surface. Over much the larger part of the, world the process of change and de velopment was absolutely unaffected by . anything that occurred In the Roman Empire; and those communities, the play of whose Influence was felt In action and reaction, and In inter action, affong themselves; were grouped immediately around the - Mediterranean. . Now, however, the whole world Is -bound together as never before; tile bonds are sometimes those of hatred rather thap love, but they, arc bonds nevertheless. ' . So much for the geographical side, of the expansion of, modern civilization. But only 'a few of the many and In tense activities of modern civilization have found their, expression on this side. The movement has Just been "Us striking in, its conquest over natural forces, in its searching Inquiry Into and about the soul of things. The conquest over, Nature has Included an extraordinary increase in every firm of knowledge of the world we live. in,, and also an extraordinary increase In. the power of utilizing the . forces of Nature-, In both directions the advance has been very great dur ing the past four or five centuries. and. in both directions It has gone on with everey ' Increasing rapidity dur ing the 'eentury. After the great age. of Rome hasv passed, the boundaries of knowledge shrank, and in. many cases . It was hot -until . wetl-nigh' our own times that her domain was once again pushed beyond the, ancient landmarks. About the year 150 A. D -Ptolemy,' the georgrapher, published his map of central Africa and the sources of the Nile,- and his map was more accurate than any which we had as late at i860 A. D. More was known of physical science, and more of the troth about the physical world was guesgea i,r In the days of Pliny than was known or guessed until the modern movement began. The case was the same as re- -gards military science. At the close -of the Middle Ages the weapons were what they had always, been sword,: shield, bow, spear; and any improve ment In them was more than onset Dy the loss In knowledge of the military , . organization, lh the science of war, and ; in military , leadership since the days of Hannibal and Ceasar. A hundred.,' years ago, when this university v was founded, the, methods ,of . transporta-- ; tion did not differ in the. essentials from wnat tney naa neen among me mgiuy. ' civilised nations of antiquity., Travelers and "merchandise' went by -land In wheeled vehicles or on beasts of bur den,' and by sea In boats propelled by . (Continued on Page TUree.j. ;