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a well-trained dog in a circus, but never as a man of the same capa- 

 bilities as a white man. 



Another reason for the mean opinion in which the Filipinos have 

 been held by the whites is found in the circumstance that in the 

 tropics all the servants are colored. They have the defects of their social 

 class and of servants everywhere. Now when a German housewife 

 complains of her servants she does not extend their bad qualities to the 

 whole German nation, but this is done unblushingly by Europeans who 

 live in the tropics, and they never, apparently, feel any compunctions, 

 but sleep the sleep of the just, undisturbed by conscience. 



The merchants also have contributed to the unfavorable judgment 

 of the Filipinos. Europeans come to the tropics in order to get rich as 

 soon as possible, which can only be done by buying from the natives at 

 astoundingly low rates. The latter, however, do not regard this pro- 

 ceeding as a really commercial one, but they believe that the whites are 

 trying to cheat them, and they govern themselves accordingly by try- 

 ing, on their side, to overreach the whites, while their dealings with 

 one another are far more honorable. Consequently the Europeans call 

 the natives liars and cheats while it never occurs to them that their 

 own exploiting of the ignorance of the natives is a conscienceless pro- 

 ceeding, or rather they believe that, as whites, they are morally justified 

 ia dealing immorally with the natives, because the latter are colored. 



Dr. Eizal finally came to think that he need no longer wonder at 

 the prejudices of the whites against his people after he saw in Europe 

 what unjustifiable prejudices European nations entertain against one 

 another. He himself was always benevolent and moderate in his 

 judgment of foreign peoples. His active and keen mind, his per- 

 sonal amiability, his politeness and manner as a man of the world, and 

 his good and noble heart gained him friends everywhere, and therefore 

 the tragic death of this intellectually distinguished and amiable man 

 aroused general concern. 



Eizal was an artist of delicate perceptions, a draughtsman and 

 sculptor, as well as a scholar and ethnologist. Professor Blumentritt 

 possesses three statues made by him of terra cotta, which might aptly 

 serve as symbols of his life. One represents Prometheus bound; the 

 second represents the victory of death over life, and this scene is 

 imagined with peculiar originality; a skeleton in a monk's cowl bears 

 in its arms the inanimate body of a young maiden. The third shows 

 us a female form standing upon a death's head and holding a torch 

 in her high uplifted hands. This is the triumph of knowledge, of the 

 soul, over death. 



Rizal, concludes Professor Blumentritt, was undoubtedly the most 

 distinguished man not only of his own people but of the Malay race in 

 general. His memory will never die in his fatherland. He never was 

 an enemy of Spain. 



