The most outstanding Propagandist was Jose Rizal. a doctor. bookman.

scientist. and author.

Born in 1861 into a comfortable Chinese ladinos household in Laguna

Province. he displayed great intelligence at an early age. After several old
ages of medical survey at the University of Santo Tomas. he went to Spain in
1882 to complete his surveies at the University of Madrid. During the
decennary that followed. Rizal’s calling spanned two universes: Among little
communities of Filipino pupils in Madrid and other European metropoliss. he
became a leader and facile spokesman. and in the wider universe of

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scientific statements. His greatest impact on the development of a Filipino
national consciousness. nevertheless. was his publication of two novels–Noli
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Me Tangere ( Touch me non ) in 1886 and El Filibusterismo ( The reign of

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greed ) in 1891. Rizal drew on his personal experiences and depicted the
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Although the mendicants had Rizal’s books banned. they were smuggled into
the Philippines and quickly gained a broad readership. Other of import
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Propagandists included Graciano Lopez Jaena. a celebrated speechmaker

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and pamphleteer who had left the islands for Spain in 1880 after the
publication of his satirical short novel. Fray Botod ( Brother Fatso ) . an
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uncomplimentary portrayal of a provincial mendicant. In 1889 he established a

fortnightly newspaper in Barcelona. La Solidaridad ( Solidarity ) . which
became the chief organ of the Propaganda Movement. holding audiences

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 both in Spain and in the islands. Its subscribers included Rizal ; Dr. Ferdinand
Blumentritt. an Austrian geographer and ethnologist whom Rizal had met in
Germany ; and Marcelo del Pilar. a reformminded attorney. Del Pilar was
active in the antifriar motion in the islands until obliged to fly to Spain in 1888.
where he became editor of La Solidaridad and assumed leading of the Filipino
community in Spain. In 1887 Rizal returned briefly to the islands. but because
of the fad environing the visual aspect of Noli Me Tangere the old
twelvemonth. he was advised by the governor to go forth.

He returned to Europe by manner of Japan and North America to finish his

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2nd novel and an edition of Antonio de Morga’s seventeenth-century work.

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Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas ( History of the Philippine Islands ) . The latter

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undertaking stemmed from an ethnological involvement in the cultural

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connexions between the peoples of the pre-Spanish Philippines and those of
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the larger Malay part ( including modern Malaysia and Indonesia ) and the
closely related political aim of encouraging national pride. De Morga provided
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positive information about the islands’ early dwellers. and dependable

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histories of pre-Christian faith and societal imposts. After a stay in Europe and
Hong Kong. Rizal returned to the Philippines in June 1892. partially because
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the Dominicans had evicted his male parent and sisters from the land they
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leased from the friars’ estate at Calamba. in Laguna Province.

He besides was convinced that the battle for reform could no longer be
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conducted efficaciously from abroad. In July he established the Liga Filipina

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( Philippine League ) . designed to be a truly national. nonviolent organisation.

It was dissolved. nevertheless. following his apprehension and expatriate to
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the distant town of Dapitan in northwesterly Mindanao. The Propaganda

Movement languished after Rizal’s apprehension and the prostration of the
Liga Filipina. La Solidaridad went out of concern in November 1895. and in

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 1896 both del Pilar and Lopez Jaena died in Barcelona. have on down by
poorness and letdown. An effort was made to restore the Liga Filipina. but the
national motion had become split between ilustrado advocators of reform and
peaceable development ( the compromisarios. or compromisers ) and a
common constituency that wanted revolution and national independency.
Because the Spanish refused to let echt reform. the inaugural rapidly passed
from the former group to the latter.

Importance significances of the articleMasonry play a signifance function in

the Propaganda Movement. Many Filipinos nationalists turned to Masons.

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including M. H. Del Pilar. G. Lopez Jaena. Rizal. Ponce. and others. because

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battle for reforms. The first Filipino masonic Lodge called Revolution was

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founded by Lopez Jaena in Barcelona and was recognized on April. 1889 by
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the Grande Oriental Espanol headed by Don Miguel Morayta. Towards the
terminal of 1891. M. H. Del Pilar. with the consent of the Grande Oriente
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Espanol. sent Serrano Laktaw to the Philippines to set up the first Filipino
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Masonic Lodge in Manila. In conformity with his mission. Serrano Laktaw

founded in Manila on January 6. 1892. Lodge Nilad. the first Filipino masonic
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Lodge in the Philippines

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DrumheadTo turn out his point and rebut the accusals of prejudiced Spanish
authors against his race. Rizal annotated the book. Sucesos de las Islas
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Filipinas. written by the Spaniard Antonio Morga. The book was an indifferent
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presentation of 16th century Filipino civilization. Rizal through his note showed
that Filipinos had developed civilization even before the coming of the
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Spaniards. While footnoting Morga’s book. he began composing the

subsequence to the Noli. the El Filibusterismo. He completed the Fili in July
1891 while he was in Brussels. Belgium. As in the printing of the Noli. Rizal

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 could non print the subsequence for the deficiency of fundss. Fortunately.
Valentin Ventura gave him fiscal aid and the Fili came out of the publishing
imperativeness on September 1891. The El Filibusterismo indicated Spanish
colonial policies and attacked the Filipino confederates of such system. The
novel pictured a society on the threshold of a revolution.

To buttress his defence of the native’s pride and self-respect as people. Rizal
wrote three important essays while abroad: The Philippines a Century hence.
the Indolence of the Filipinos and the Letter to the Women of Malolos. These
Hagiographas were his superb responses to the barbarous onslaughts against

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settlement was to be under the associated state of the North Borneo
Company. he was granted permission by the British Governor to set up a
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colony on a 190. 000 acre belongings in North Borneo. The settlement was to
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be under the associated state of the North Borneo Company. with the “same
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Governor Eulogio Despujol disapproved the undertaking for obvious and self-
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seeking grounds. He considered the program impractical and improper that

Filipinos would settle and develop foreign districts while the settlement itself
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severely needed such developments.

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DecisionMany Filipinos took safety in Europe and Initiated in Spain in a

Campaign for reforms in the Philippines. The immergence of more Filipino
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Illustrados gave birth to a incorporate nationalist motion. This run was known
in our history as the Propaganda Movement. Their purpose was peaceable
assimilation. mentioning to the passage of the Philippines from being a

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 settlement to a state of Spain. The propagandist believed that it would be
better if the Filipinos would go Spanish citizens. since they would be basking
the same rights and privileges of the latter. Its disciples did non seek
independency from Spain but reforms.

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