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Anthropological Society of Berlin. Upon returning to his native land 

 he was soon compelled to emigrate because his novel 'Noli me Tangere'* 

 had drawn upon him the unextinguishable hatred of the Old Spanish 

 party. After a short sojourn in Japan and Xorth America, he estab- 

 lished himself in London where, under the guidance of Dr. Eost, he 

 broadened his acquaintance with languages, and meanwhile edited the 

 second edition of the well-known work of DeMorga upon the Philippines 

 which was published in Paris. \ In Biarritz, Paris, Ghent and Brussels 

 he wrote his second political novel 'El Filibusterismo.' He then re- 

 turned to the East and practised medicine for some time in Hong 

 Kong, from which city he removed to British Borneo with a view to 

 establishing a Filipino farming colony there. He meanwhile obtained 

 permission to visit his home again, but was arrested upon his arrival 

 upon the charge that anti-Spanish writings had been found in his 

 trunks at the Custom House. He was thereupon banished to Dapitan 

 in the island of Mindanao, whence he could easily have made his escape, 

 but in the full consciousness of innocence he did not hesitate to remain 

 there in exile. When the insurrection of 1896 broke out he was im- 

 mediately charged with instigating it, was brought to trial on this 

 charge three times in five months, was acquitted twice, but the third 

 time his unchristian enemies succeeded in their purpose of convicting 

 him and he was condemned. to death. 



Eizal devoted himself particularly to the analysis of the sentiments 

 with which whites and the colored races mutually regard each other. 

 Xo one was so well qualified as he to study this question which is 

 of such importance for folk-psychology, for he was himself of a colored 

 race, had lived among his fellow countrymen at his own home, as well 

 as among the whites, mixed bloods and other classes at Manila, and 

 had besides come to know Hong Kong, Japan, Europe and the United 

 States, and that in a thorough wav and not as a mere tourist. His 

 extensive acquaintance with languages opened for him the ethnological 

 writings of all civilized nations, and his own penetrating intellect pre- 

 vented him from remaining content with the surface of things. It 

 should be said, however, that Eizal concerned himself wholly with the re- 

 lations between the whites and the colored people of the Philippines be- 

 cause, as he explained, he knew nothing of the psychology of other 

 colored races. 



He said that when a boy lie was deeply sensible that the Spaniards 

 treated him with contemptuous disregard for the sole reason that he 

 was a Filipino. From the moment when he discovered this attitude 



* Published in an English translation in the United States under the title 

 ' An Eagle Flight.' 



t De Morga was viceroy in Manila in 1598 and wrote a most valuable Avork 

 upon the Philippines which was published in Mexico in 1609. 



