Note 6 — Chapter XXXVI · Is Philippine Independence now Possible?
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Without going further into the differences which separate the several civilized peoples, I will say emphatically that the great mass of Filipinos do not constitute “a people” in the sense in which that word is understood in the United States. They are not comparable in any way with the American people or the English people. They cannot be reached as a whole, and they do not respond as a whole. In this they agree with all other Malays. Colquhoun has truly said:6—