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050			_aFIL DS675.8 .R5 2019 _bCL12870
100			_aTrillana, Pablo III. _eauthor. _956640
245			_aRizal and the wide road of progress / _cPablo Trillana III.
260			_aQuezon City : _bNew Day Pub., _c2019.
300			_a242 pages : _billustrations.; _c26 cm.
500			_aIncludes bibliography.
504			_6Indeed the 19th century brought a hundred years of simultaneous great awakenings and great nightmares, of minds that soared and hearts that mourned. It was Rizal's century. He exemplified it's essence. Although he inspired the founding of the Katipunan, he refused to give his blessings to the revolution they planned to carry out, believing Filipinos were not ready to claim freedom from Spain by force. Like their islands of their archipelago, they were physically and psychically scattered and pathetically short of arms and military training. Just the same, without proof of the charges against him, he was sentenced to pay with his life for defying Spain, a blessing in disguise. In death his spirit soared in exultation, rallying Filipinos toward freedom and, within about a hundred years hence, into the wide road of progress his last prophetic message to his people. As Charles Dickens had written in A Tale of Two Cities : " It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.''
650			_aRizal, Jose, 1861-1896. _956641
650			_aPhilippines _xHistory. _956642
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