Original Draft, most expressed view of De la Costa & Balance of Judgement

1. Cannot be read by young people, without the aid of a competent teacher or editor – plays from
Shakespeare
2. Rizal is the national hero, moral teacher, and moral example
3. First among Filipinos – who have distinguished themselves for services to their country. He
possessed to an eminent degree those moral virtues that make up true patriotism
4. Dispelling the ignorance of his people, raising their moral standards.
5. Filipino people were also victims of their own vices and defects.
6. Writings of Rizal be more read and even introduced into our school
7. Rizal declared he did not to attack the catholic church itself, but the abuses in it.

Draft A
1. Rizal wrote about fictional crimes of fictional characteristics, which had a basis in fact
2. Should be accurate translation, properly annotated by a scholar familiar with civic history of
Rizal’s period

Draft B.

1. A copy of A with handwritten changes made during meeting with Dela Costa’s critic

Draft C.

1. Fr. Jesus Cavanna is involved

2. Shows conscious effort of denying Rizal the moral role.
3. Retaining the point about Kapitan Tiyago’s veneration of saints, and omission of Pilosopo
Tasio’s belief regarding Purgatory.
4. Rizal wrote fiction and not history.
5. Not advisable for highschool students to reat the entire text novels.

Draft D.

1. Shortened version of C
2. This was not used by Fr. Cavanna

Draft E.

1. A copy of C
2. Fr. Cavanna state the attack of Rizal against Church
3. 120 References passages are against Catholic Dogma & Morals
4. Noli is not patriotic
5. 333 pages, 25 pages patriotic, 120 pages anti-catholic

Propostion of Fr. Horacio Dela Costa of the Draft Letter A.

1. Rizal, by universal consent, is first among Filipinos who have distinguisged themselves for
service to their country.
2. For he possessed to an eminent degree those moral virtues that make up true patriotism.
3. He devoted himself to dispelling the ignorance of his people, raising their moral standards
and combating the injustices and inequality under which they labored.
4. His love for his country did not blame all ills on strangers but proclaimed that the Filipino
people were also victims of their own vices and defects.
5. That is why he could say of the Noli Me Tangere that none can dispute the objectivity of my
narrative.
6. We must applaud the principle that the wriotings of Rizal be more read and even introduced
to our schools.
7. His devotion to the truthe gave him a clear vision