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"The Social Cancer"

That there will be an outbreak
somewhere is as certain as that the plant will grow toward the light,
even under the most unfavorable conditions, for man's nature is but
the resultant of eternal forces that ceaselessly and irresistibly
interplay about and upon him, and somewhere this resultant will
express itself in thought or deed.
After three centuries of Spanish ecclesiastical domination in
the Philippines, it was to be expected that the wards would turn
against their mentors the methods that had been used upon them,
nor is it especially remarkable that there was a decided tendency in
some parts to revert to primitive barbarism, but that concurrently a
creative genius--a bard or seer--should have been developed among a
people who, as a whole, have hardly passed through the clan or village
stage of society, can be regarded as little less than a psychological
phenomenon, and provokes the perhaps presumptuous inquiry as to whether
there may not be some things about our common human nature that the
learned doctors have not yet included in their anthropometric diagrams.


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