Filipinas Dentro De Cien Años, livre ebook

Only incorporated into the Spanish Crown, they had to support with their blood and with the efforts of their children the wars and conquering ambitions of the Spanish people, and in these struggles, in that terrible crisis of the peoples when they change government, laws, Of customs, customs, religion and beliefs, the Philippines became depopulated, impoverished and backward, surprised in its metamorphosis, no longer trusting in its past, without faith even in its present and without any flattering hope in the days to come. The ancient lords, who had only tried to conquer the fear and submission of their subjects, for whom they were accustomed to slavery, fell like the leaves of a dry tree, and the people, who had neither love nor knew what they were freedom, easily changed master, hoping perhaps to gain something in the novelty.