3. When the tide is running backward through the world and some men scoff at democracy and some men doubt it, there may be profit in turning to the story of this long-drawn-out struggle against autocracy to observe once more how inevitable, against all oppositions or frantic arguings, is the democratic advance. 4. A temporary fashion of detraction having left not even Lancelot brave nor Galahad clean, it may be worth while to revive the fact that, after all, men have lived on this earth that had other than merely selfish aims and felt other than merely sensual impulses, and find an example in this Malay. 5. When the world is resounding with the echoes of a terrible war, and hatreds seem to possess the souls of men, it may be well to consider the career and influence of one that sought reforms by peaceful means, repudiated force, and chose for his motto a sentiment broad enough to cover all human failings and cure most human hurts: To understand all is to forgive all. C. E. R. New York, June 25, 1923. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I A People’s Wrongs 3 II School-Days and First Impressions 28 III First Contacts with the Enemy 51 IV Voices of Prophecy 78 V “Noli Me Tangere” 97 VI Leonora Rivera 118 VII Again in the Philippines 130 VIII The Grapes of Wrath 161 IX Philippine Independence 172 X Filipino Indolence 181 XI What Manner of Man 202 XII “El Filibusterismo” 215 XIII The Safe-Conduct 233 XIV The Exile of Dapitan 246 XV The Katipunan 267 XVI “I Came from Martyrdom unto this Peace” 289 XVII Results and Influences 314 Appendices 337 A Rizal Bibliography 371 Index 383 ILLUSTRATIONS