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We see wealth and
greatness; we see corruption and vice; and one seems to follow so close
upon the other, that we fancy they must have always co-existed. We
look more steadily, and we perceive long periods of time, in which
there is first a growth and then a decay, like what we perceive in
a tree of the forest."
FROUDE, Annals of an English Abbey.

Monasticism's record in the Philippines presents no new general fact
to the eye of history. The attempt to eliminate the eternal feminine
from her natural and normal sphere in the scheme of things there met
with the same certain and signal disaster that awaits every perversion
of human activity. Beginning with a band of zealous, earnest men,
sincere in their convictions, to whom the cause was all and their
personalities nothing, it there, as elsewhere, passed through its
usual cycle of usefulness, stagnation, corruption, and degeneration.
To the unselfish and heroic efforts of the early friars Spain
in large measure owed her dominion over the Philippine Islands
and the Filipinos a marked advance on the road to civilization and
nationality.


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