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Title: The Reign of Greed
Complete English Version of 'El Filibusterismo'
Author: Jose Rizal
Translator: Charles Derbyshire
Release Date: October 10, 2005 [EBook #10676]
Language: English
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The Reign of Greed
A Complete English Version of El Filibusterismo from the Spanish of
José Rizal
By
Charles Derbyshire
Manila
Philippine Education Company
1912
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Copyright, 1912, by Philippine Education Company.
Entered at Stationers’ Hall.
Registrado en las Islas Filipinas.
All rights reserved. [v]
Translator’s Introduction
El Filibusterismo, the second of José Rizal’s novels of Philippine life, is a story of the last days
of the Spanish régime in the Philippines. Under the name of The Reign of Greed it is for the first
time translated into English. Written some four or five years after Noli Me Tangere, the book
represents Rizal’s more mature judgment on political and social conditions in the islands, and in
its graver and less hopeful tone reflects the disappointments and discouragements which he had
encountered in his efforts to lead the way to reform. Rizal’s dedication to the first edition is of
special interest, as the writing of it was one of the grounds of accusation against him when he
was condemned to death in 1896. It reads:
“To the memory of the priests, Don Mariano Gomez (85 years old), Don José Burgos (30 years old), and
Don Jacinto Zamora (35 years old). Executed in Bagumbayan Field on the 28th of February, 1872.
“The Church, by refusing to degrade you, has placed in doubt the crime that has been imputed to you; the
Government, by surrounding your trials with mystery and shadows, causes the belief that there was some
error, committed in fatal moments; and all the Philippines, by worshiping your memory and calling you
martyrs, in no [vi] sense recognizes your culpability. In so far, therefore, as your complicity in the Cavite
mutiny is not clearly proved, as you may or may not have been patriots, and as you may or may not have
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