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diff --git a/14660-h/14660-h.htm b/14660-h/14660-h.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..710b25a --- /dev/null +++ b/14660-h/14660-h.htm @@ -0,0 +1,222 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> +<head> +<meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org" /> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" +content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> +<title>The Project Gutenberg eBook of Mabini's Decalogue For +Filipinos, by Apolinario Mabini.</title> +<style type="text/css"> +/*<![CDATA[ XML blockout */ +<!-- + P { margin-top: .75em; + text-align: justify; + margin-bottom: .75em; + } + H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6 { + text-align: center; /* all headings centered */ + } + HR { width: 33%; + margin-top: 1em; + margin-bottom: 1em; + } + BODY{margin-left: 10%; + margin-right: 10%; + } + .linenum {position: absolute; top: auto; left: 4%;} /* poetry number */ + .note {margin-left: 2em; margin-right: 2em; margin-bottom: 1em;} /* footnote */ + .blkquot {margin-left: 4em; margin-right: 4em;} /* block indent */ + .pagenum {position: absolute; left: 92%; font-size: smaller; text-align: right;} /* page numbers */ + .sidenote {width: 20%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-left: 1em; font-size: smaller; float: right; clear: right;} + + .poem {margin-left:10%; margin-right:10%; text-align: left;} + .poem br {display: none;} + .poem .stanza {margin: 1em 0em 1em 0em;} + .poem span {display: block; margin: 0; padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;} + .poem span.i2 {display: block; margin-left: 2em;} + .poem span.i4 {display: block; margin-left: 4em;} + .poem .caesura {vertical-align: -200%;} + // --> + /* XML end ]]>*/ + +</style> +</head> +<body> +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 14660 ***</div> + +<h1><b>MABINI'S DECALOGUE FOR FILIPINOS</b></h1> + +<h1><a href="images/002.jpg"><img src="images/002.jpg" border="0" +alt="Apolinario Mabini" width="225" height="321" /></a></h1> + +<br /> + + +<h3>Apolinario Mabini, Martyr.</h3> + +<p>"Thou shalt love thy country after God and they honor and more +than thyself: for she is the only Paradise which God has given thee +in this life, the only inheritance of thy ancestors and the only +hope of thy posterity."</p> + +<h3>PHILIPPINE PRESS BUREAU<br /> +Washington, D. C.</h3> + +<h3>1922</h3> + +<hr style='width: 65%;' /> +<a id="MABINI" name='MABINI'></a> +<h2>MABINI</h2> + +<br /> + + +<p>Mabini was undoubtedly the most profound thinker and political +philosopher that the Pilipino race ever produced. Some day, when +his works are fully published, but not until then, Mabini will come +into his own. A great name awaits him, not only in the Philippines, +for he is already appreciated there, but in every land where the +cause of liberty and human freedom is revered.</p> + +<p>Mabini was born in Tanawan, province of Batangas, island of +Luzon, P.I., of poor Filipino parents, in 1864. He received his +education in the "Colegio de San Juan de Letran." Manila, and in +the University of Santo Tomas. He supported himself while studying +by his own efforts, and made a brilliant record in both +institutions. Later he devoted his energies to the establishment of +a private school in Manila and to legal work.</p> + +<p>Mabini came to the front in 1898 during the Pilipino revolution +against Spain. In the subsequent revolution against the United +States he became known as "the brains of the revolution." He was so +considered by the American army officers, who bent every energy to +capture him.</p> + +<p>He was the leading adviser of Aguinaldo, and was the author of +the latter's many able decrees and proclamations. Mabini's official +position was President of the Council of Secretaries, and he also +held the post of Secretary of the Exterior.</p> + +<p>One of Mabini's greatest works was his draft of a constitution +for the Philippine Republic. It was accompanied by what he called +"The True Decalogue," published in the pages following. Mabini's +"ten commandments" are so framed as to meet the needs of Filipino +patriotism for all time. He also drafted rules for the organization +and government of municipalities and provinces, which were highly +successful because of their adaptability to local conditions.</p> + +<p>Mabini remained the head of Aguinaldo's cabinet until March, +1899, when he resigned. But he continued in hearty sympathy with +the revolution, however, and his counsel was frequently sought.</p> + +<p>Mabini was arrested by the American forces in September, 1899, +and remained a prisoner until September 23, 1900. Following his +release, he lived for a while in a suburb of Manila, in a poor nipa +house, under the most adverse and trying circumstances. He was in +abject poverty.</p> + +<p>In spite of his terrible suffering from paralysis, Mabini +continued writing. He severely criticised the government, voicing +the sentiments of the Filipino people for freedom. He was ordered +to desist, but to this, in one of his writings to the people, he +replied: "To tell a man to be quiet when a necessity not fulfilled +is shaking all the fibers of his being is tantamount to asking a +hungry man to be filled before taking the food which he needs."</p> + +<p>Mabini's logic was a real embarrassment to the American military +forces, and in January, 1901, he was arrested a second time by the +Americans. This time he was exiled to the island of Guam, where he +remained until his return to Manila on February 26, 1903.</p> + +<p>Mabini died in Manila, of cholera, May 13, 1903, at the age of +39 years. His funeral was the most largely attended of any ever +held in Manila.</p> + +<p>Although he died from natural causes, Mabini died a martyr to +the cause of Philippine independence. Five years of persecution +left his intense patriotism untouched, but it had made his physical +self a ready victim for a premature death.</p> + +<hr style='width: 65%;' /> +<a id="quotTHE_TRUE_DECALOGUEquot" +name='quotTHE_TRUE_DECALOGUEquot'></a> +<h2><b>"THE TRUE DECALOGUE"</b></h2> + +<h3>By APOLINARIO MABINI</h3> + +<br /> + + +<p>First. Thou shalt love God and thy honor above all things: God +as the fountain of all truth, of all justice and of all activity; +and thy honor, the only power which will oblige thee to be +faithful, just and industrious.</p> + +<p>Second. Thou shalt worship God in the form which thy conscience +may deem most righteous and worthy: for in thy conscience, which +condemns thy evil deeds and praises thy good ones, speaks thy +God.</p> + +<p>Third. Thou shalt cultivate the special gifts which God has +granted thee, working and studying according to thy ability, never +leaving the path of righteousness and justice, in order to attain +thy own perfection, by means whereof thou shalt contribute to the +progress of humanity; thus; thou shalt fulfill the mission to which +God has appointed thee in this life and by so doing, thou shalt be +honored, and being honored, thou shalt glorify thy God.</p> + +<p>Fourth. Thou shalt love thy country after God and thy honor and +more than thyself: for she is the only Paradise which God has given +thee in this life, the only patrimony of thy race, the only +inheritance of thy ancestors and the only hope of thy posterity; +because of her, thou hast life, love and interests, happiness, +honor and God.</p> + +<p>Fifth. Thou shalt strive for the happiness of thy country before +thy own, making of her the kingdom of reason, of justice and of +labor: for if she be happy, thou, together with thy family, shalt +likewise be happy.</p> + +<p>Sixth. Thou shalt strive for the independence of thy country: +for only thou canst have any real interest in her advancement and +exaltation, because her independence constitutes thy own liberty; +her advancement, thy perfection; and her exaltation, thy own glory +and immortality.</p> + +<p>Seventh. Thou shalt not recognize in thy country the authority +of any person who has not been elected by thee and thy countrymen; +for authority emanates from God, and as God speaks in the +conscience of every man, the person designated and proclaimed by +the conscience of a whole people is the only one who can use true +authority.</p> + +<p>Eighth. Thou shalt strive for a Republic and never for a +monarchy in thy country: for the latter exalts one or several +families and founds a dynasty; the former makes a people noble and +worthy through reason, great through liberty, and prosperous and +brilliant through labor.</p> + +<p>Ninth. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: for God has +imposed upon him, as well as upon thee, the obligation to help thee +and not to do unto thee what he would not have thee do unto him; +but if thy neighbor, failing in this sacred duty, attempt against +thy life, thy liberty and thy interests, then thou shalt destroy +and annihilate him for the supreme law of self-preservation +prevails.</p> + +<p>Tenth. Thou shalt consider thy countryman more than thy +neighbor; thou shalt see him thy friend, thy brother or at least +thy comrade, with whom thou art bound by one fate, by the same joys +and sorrows and by common aspirations and interests.</p> + +<p>Therefore, as long as national frontiers subsist, raised and +maintained by the selfishness of race and of family, with thy +countryman alone shalt thou unite in a perfect solidarity of +purpose and interest, in order to have force, not only to resist +the common enemy but also to attain all the aims of human life.</p> + +<div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 14660 ***</div> +</body> +</html> + diff --git a/14660-h/images/002.jpg b/14660-h/images/002.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..c5a1c86 --- /dev/null +++ b/14660-h/images/002.jpg |
