THE PHILIPPINES A CENTURY

HENCE
-DR. JOSE RIZAL
AN ESSAY THAT FORECASTED THE
FUTURE OF THE COUNTRY WITHIN
A HUNDRED YEARS

• Published in La Solidaridad
• Causes of the Filipino people’s miseries
• Importance of strengthening our own culture
• Forecast the future of the country within a
hundred years
CAUSES OF THE MISERIES
SUFFERED BY THE FILIPINO
PEOPLE

“In order to read the destiny of the people, it

is necessary to open the book of its past.”
Rizal, p.365
 CAUSES OF THE MISERIES
SUFFERED BY THE FILIPINO
PEOPLE

1 . S PA I N ’ S I M P L E M E N TAT I O N
O F H E R M I L I TA R Y P O L I C I E S
CAUSES OF THE MISERIES
SUFFERED BY THE FILIPINO
PEOPLE
2. Deterioration and disappearance of
Filipino indigenous culture
3 . PA S S I V I T Y A N D
S U B M I S S I V E N E S S TO
CAUSES OF THE
T H E S PA N I S H MISERIES SUFFERED
COLONIZERS BY THE FILIPINO
PEOPLE
EFFECTS OF COLONIZATION:

• Poverty became rampant.

• Population decreased and the aspects of the life
of the Filipino were retarded.
• The Filipinos lost their indigenous traditions
and culture.
• The Filipino spirit was broken.
What had awakened the hearts and
opened the minds of the Filipino
people with regards to their plight?

Can Spain prevent or not prevent the

progress of the Philippines?
The natives realized that such oppression in
their society by foreign colonizers must no
longer be tolerated.

Keeping the people uneducated and ignorant

had failed

Keeping he people impoverished also came to

no avail.

Exterminating the people as an alternative to

hindering progress did not work either
PREDICTIONS OF RIZAL:

(1) Spain will eventually grant the motherland

the independence she seeks - including the
fair representation in the Spanish Cortes,
(2) The Philippines will uprise against Spain if it
continues to ignore her outcry and form her
own government, and
(3) the Americans might take interest in the
Philippines and take it (or buy it) from Spain.
“History does not record in its annals any
lasting domination by one people over
another, of different races, of diverse usages
and customs, of opposite and divergent ideas.
One of the two had to yield and succumb.”

-Jose Rizal
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