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Farewell to 1883
I will avail myself of your invitation to speak. Your rare and hard attention is not to be wasted and what I have to tell you is worth...
Fourth Letter to Fr. Pastells
Dapitan, April 4, 1893 My Most Reverend Father: In time I received your gift, Monsignor Bougaud’s work*, which I am reading with the...
Third Letter to Fr. Pastells
Dapitan, January 9, 1893 My Most Reverend Father: With great pleasure I have read your esteemed and profound the letter of December 8th....
Second Letter to Fr. Pastells
Dapitan, November 11,1892. My Most Reverend Father: Before replying to your valuable letter, I must thank you for Kempis’* book which you...
First Letter to Fr. Pastells
Dapitan, September 1, 1892 My ever esteemed Father: Although you have not honored me with a letter, the precious gift you deigned to send...
To the Filipino Farmers
We applaud the efforts of the minister of colonies to foster agriculture in the Philippines. Proofs of these are the boards, commissions,...
Letter to Blumentritt
Chalcot Crescent, Primrose Hill, N.W. London, 23 June 1888 My dear Friend, Today I received your second letter. I address you familiarly...
Anatomy of the Anti-Hero
Paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all, but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see...
A Letter to the Young Women of Malolos
When I wrote Noli Me Tangere, I asked myself whether bravery was a common thing in the young women of our people. I brought back to my...
Veneration without Understanding
In the histories of many nations, the national revolution represents a peak of achievement to which the minds of man return time and...
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