THE INDOLENCE OF THE FILIPINO

BY JOSE RIZAL

("LA INDOLENCIA DE LOS FILIPINOS" IN ENGLISH.)








EDITOR'S EXPLANATION

Mr. Charles Derbyshire, who put Rizal's great novel Noli me tangere
and its sequel El Filibusterismo into English (as The Social Cancer and
The Reign of Greed), besides many minor writings of the "Greatest Man
of the Brown Race", has rendered a similar service for La Indolencia
de los Filipinos in the following pages, and with that same fidelity
and sympathetic comprehension of the author's meaning which has made
possible an understanding of the real Rizal by English readers. Notes
by Dr. James A. Robertson (Librarian of the Philippine Library and
co-editor of the 55-volume series of historical reprints well called
The Philippine Islands 1493-1898, so comprehensive are they) show
the breadth of Rizal's historical scholarship, and that the only error
mentioned is due to using a faulty reprint where the original was
not available indicates the conscientiousness of the pioneer worker.

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