Philippine Life in Town and CountryG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905 - 311 pages |
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Aguinaldo American archipelago aristocracy authority barrios Bikols Bisayans blood caciquism Captain Tiago Cavite census century chief Chinese Christian Church civil commonly communities course cultivation degree dialects districts Don Custodio El Filibusterismo English European existence extent fact favour Fili Filipinos friars half-caste Ibanags Igorots Ilokans importance industrial instruction Jesuits José Rizal labour Laguna de Bay land leaders less Luzon mainly Malay Manila masses ment mestizo Mindanao modern Mohammedan Moros movement municipal native never organisation Orient pagans Pangasinans pelago Philip Philippine Islands pines pinos population practical priests primary primitive principalía programme progress provinces PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR question racial recent recognise reform regard regions religion religious revolt Rizal schools social and political society sort Spain Spaniards Spanish language Spanish régime Spanish rule Tagalog teachers tendency things tion to-day TOWN AND COUNTRY trade tribal tribes tropics United upper class village women write YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
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Page 175 - To him that hath shall be given ; and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Page 149 - The Church, by refusing to degrade you, has placed in doubt the crime that has been imputed to you; the Government, by surrounding your trials with mystery and shadows, causes the belief that there was some error, committed in fatal moments; and all the Philippines, by worshipping your memory and calling you martyrs, in no sense recognizes your culpability.
Page 66 - Generally speaking, I found a kind and generous urbanity prevailing, — friendly intercourse where that intercourse had been sought, — the lines of demarcation and separation less marked and impassable than in most oriental countries. I have seen at the same table Spaniard, Mestizo and Indian — priest, civilian, and soldier. No doubt a common religion forms a common bond...
Page 212 - ... years ago .... If you do not see it, it is because you have not seen the former state, have not studied the effect of the immigration of Europeans, of the entrance of new books, and of the going of the young men to study in Europe. . . . The experimental sciences have already given their first fruits ; it needs only time to perfect them. The lawyers of to-day are being trained in the new teachings of legal philosophy ; some begin to shine in the midst of the shadows which surround our courts...
Page 205 - In a report on the medical college made to the American authorities a few years ago, a German physician of Manila stated that it had no library worth considering, that some text-books dated back to 1845, that no female cadaver had ever been dissected and the anatomy course was a farce, that most graduates never had attended even one case of confinement or seen a case of laparotomy, and that bacteriology had been introduced only since American occupation and was still taught without microscopes !...
Page 6 - The Spaniards did influence the Filipinos profoundly, and on the whole for the better. There are ways, indeed, in which their record as a colonizing power in the Philippines stands today unique in all the world for its benevolent achievement and its substantial accomplishment of net progress. We do not need to gloss over the defects of Spain; we do not need to condone the backward and halting policy which at last turned the Filipinos...