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The Philippine Islands - Volume 46

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. . .ndias and in the edicts of good government [Bandos de Buen Gobierno], it is a fact that those orders are isolated regulations, without connection, and the product of the good desire which has always animated the monarchs of España and their worthy representatives in the archipelago, for the advance and prosperity of the archipelago, but without resting on a fixed foundation, for lack of elements so that such foundation might exist.7 [74]

Before the above-mentioned epoch the reverend and devout8 parish priests came to fill in great part, and voluntarily, the noble ends of propagating primary instruction through these remote regions, with the aid of the most advanced of their scholars themselves, who devoted themselves to the teaching of their fellow citizens, receiving scarcely any remuneration for their work and trouble, and without being regarded as teachers or having any certificate which accredited them as such.

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- Josh - Jan 20, 2022

Morga's account of the Philippine islands offers only the perspective of the colonisers throughout the archipelago, and understandably so. To my understanding, this account was prepared for the Spanish monarch and his associates for a clearer picture of the affairs and histories in the colony withou

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