Spanish power, too,
was for the moment more firmly established, and Moro piracy in Luzon
and the Bisayan Islands, which had been so great a drawback to the
development of the country, was forever ended.
The return of the Jesuits produced two general results tending to
dissatisfaction with the existing order. To them was assigned the
missionary field of Mindanao, which meant the displacement of the
Recollect Fathers in the missions there, and for these other berths
had to be found. Again the native clergy were the losers in that they
had to give up their best parishes in Luzon, especially around Manila
and Cavite, so the breach was further widened and the soil sown with
discontent. But more far-reaching than this immediate result was the
educational movement inaugurated by the Jesuits. The native, already
feeling the vague impulses from without and stirred by the growing
restlessness of the times, here saw a new world open before him. A
considerable portion of the native population in the larger centers,
who had shared in the economic progress of the colony, were enabled
to look beyond their daily needs and to afford their children an
opportunity for study and advancement--a condition and a need met
by the Jesuits for a time.
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