PHILIPPINES, A CENTURY HENCE
● Causes of miseries
1. Spain’s implementation of her military laws
2. Deterioration and disappearance of Filipino indigenous
culture.
3. Passivity and submissiveness to the Spanish colonizers
● Rizal's arguments
1. Keeping the masses dumb and illiterate had failed.
National consciousness had not yet been awakened,
and great Filipino brains were still emerging from the
ruins.
2. Keeping people in poverty instilled in Filipinos a drive to
alter things.
3. Exterminating the people as an alternative to impeding
progress also failed. The Filipino race survived wars
and famines and grew even more numerous as a result.
To completely destroy the nation, hundreds of Spanish
soldiers would have to be sacrificed, which Spain would
not allow.
4.
● Causes of miseries
1. Spain’s implementation of her military laws
2. Deterioration and disappearance of Filipino indigenous
culture.
3. Passivity and submissiveness to the Spanish colonizers
● Rizal's arguments
1. Keeping the masses dumb and illiterate had failed.
National consciousness had not yet been awakened,
and great Filipino brains were still emerging from the
ruins.
2. Keeping people in poverty instilled in Filipinos a drive to
alter things.
3. Exterminating the people as an alternative to impeding
progress also failed. The Filipino race survived wars
and famines and grew even more numerous as a result.
To completely destroy the nation, hundreds of Spanish
soldiers would have to be sacrificed, which Spain would
not allow.
4.
