Note 8 — Chapter XVII · RESULTS AND INFLUENCES
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In the life of Rizal the note of physical love is scarcely perceived. Don Isabelo de los Reyes has written:
“I have said that he sacrificed even his natural passions for his country, because if Rizal would have stretched forth his hand for better favor from the Philippines, he would easily have received it; and yet he did not marry, undoubtedly so as not to bring misfortune on his family because of the horrible end which he foresaw, and only ‘in articulato mortis’ married a foreigner who had been his sweetheart. Thus he made patent the fact that he did not hate the white race, as his enemies the priests claimed. They are very much interested in having it believed that the insurrectionists do not hate them directly, but the entire white race, which is a calumny, as are so many others that they are wont to invent to help obtain their ends.”—Retana, p. 338. ↑