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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898; Volume 46, 1721-1739

Note 5 — PRIMARY INSTRUCTION

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There are not schools in almost every village, and the identification of the Filipinos with the Spaniards has not progressed so far as has been declared, especially in the matter of intelligence; and “it is not certain that the condition of the institutions of teaching authorizes one to believe the Filipinos capable of making use of political rights so grave and so dangerous as the electoral right, in the form that they ask.”5

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