Last Saturday Mr. Roosevelt lectured on " The Duties of
the Citizen in a Republic " at the Sorbonne in Paris before an audience of about three thousand persons. He spoke in his usual direct and forcible manner, treating his audience, as the Times correspondent tells us, to many extempore interpola- tions. He assumed that the duties of citizenship are identical " in the only two Republics which are at the same time ranked as Great Powers." In monarchies or oligarchies a great deal depended upon those at the head of affairs; but in France and America the personal character of the individual citizens was all-important.—We must take leave here to say that there is every reason for applying Mr. Roosevelt's argument unre- servedly to our own Constitutional Monarchy.—Intellectual training failed in almost all cases if it led to isolation or cynicism. Every man ought to work. A man ought not only to maintain himself, but to maintain his family, and it was his distinct duty to propagate the race. Nothing was more to be reprobated than voluntary sterility. This was a crime which in the long run Nature would punish more severely than any other. No refinement and no development of art and literature could compensate for the loss of the great
fundamental virtues, of which the greatest was the power of a race to perpetuate itself.
