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José Rizal

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Born 1861 · Died 1896 in Manila

writer, novelist, poet · Captaincy General of the Philippines, Philippines · associated with Propaganda Movement

Notable works: El filibusterismo, Mi último adiós

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The Indolence of the Filipino

From Project Gutenberg e-text #6885 (public domain in the USA).

Indolence in the Philippines is a chronic malady, but not a hereditary one.

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The Filipinos have not always been what they are, witnesses whereto are all the historians of the first years after the discovery of the Islands.

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We must confess that indolence does actually and positively exist there; only that, instead of holding it to be the cause of the backwardness and the trouble, we regard it as the effect of the trouble and the backwardness, by fostering the development of a lamentable predisposition.

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