


Guerrero "One is tempted to imagine that an agitator has secretly bewitched the friar-lovers and the reactionaries into favouring and promoting, all unwitting, a policy which can have only one aim: to spread subversive ideas throughout the country and to convince each and every Filipino that there is no solution except independence from the Mother Country." -Ferdinand Blumentritt TO THE FILIPINO PEOPLE AND THEIR GOVERNMENT The spectre of subversion has been used so often to righten us that, from being a mere nursery tale, it has acquired a real and positive existence, whose mere mention makes us commit the greatest mistakes. A completely new translation for the contemporary reader by Leon Ma.
