Note 10 — Chapter X · FILIPINO INDOLENCE
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Other Spaniards of that period bore witness to the same decline; and generations later a German traveler, observing the differences between the habits of the natives under Spanish rule and of those that were still unsubdued, asked if the industrious free peoples would not in their turn become indolent when Christianity and Spain should be forced upon them. “The Filipinos,” Rizal justly concludes from these testimonies, “in spite of the climate, in spite of their few needs (they were less then than now), were not the indolent creatures of our time.”10