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Ilustrados Views of The Climate in The 19TH

The document discusses Jose Rizal's views on the climate and nature in the Philippines in the 19th century from his perspective as an Ilustrado living in Europe. It also summarizes his speech known as the Brindis, in which he praised the natural beauty of the tropics but also declared that genius has no nationality. Finally, it notes that by 1887, Rizal had abandoned the idea of assimilation with Spain and instead sought greater autonomy and representation for the Philippines without full separation from Spain.

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Ilustrados Views of The Climate in The 19TH

The document discusses Jose Rizal's views on the climate and nature in the Philippines in the 19th century from his perspective as an Ilustrado living in Europe. It also summarizes his speech known as the Brindis, in which he praised the natural beauty of the tropics but also declared that genius has no nationality. Finally, it notes that by 1887, Rizal had abandoned the idea of assimilation with Spain and instead sought greater autonomy and representation for the Philippines without full separation from Spain.

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ILUSTRADOS VIEWS OF

THE CLIMATE IN THE 19TH


CENTURY
In the 19 th

century
EL DEMONIO DE LAS
COMPARACIONES
(THE SPECTRE OF
COMPARISON)
• After Rizal published his novel Noli Me Tangere in 1897,
Rizal already imagining what it would be like for him to
return to Manila? Was he anticipating that he would no
longer see the old familiar surroundings in the way he did
prior to his travel overseas?
• As Ilustrados who bravely pushed for reforms for the Philippines,
many were wondering about their perspective on Las islas
Filipinas from European Location.

• Jose Rizal, as well as del Pilar, Lopez Jaena and Antonio Luna had
a promising political career as they interacted with the European
oligarchs and somehow tried to influence some high- ranking
people to sympathize with their desire to free the Filipino people.
ROMANCING
NATURE IN RIZAL’S
BRINDIS
• On Rizal’s astonishing speech about the equality of
Spaniards and Filipinos, namely, the Brindis, earned him
the title of filibustero
• Rizal had clearly shown his eager to desire to attain
independence for the country. He had interpreted the
success of Hidalgo and Luna, an act of optimism of what
might lie ahead and a glance of the past. In the Brindis,
Rizal praised nature in the tropics as alongside disastrous
and tranquil, magnificent and terrible.
• He considers their achievements as part of the inevitability
of progress, resulting from contact with “Occidental
peoples,” an encounterthat “awakens” the natives like an
“electric shock” after centuries ofslumber. Seen linearly,
this historic moment shows that “the patriarchalera in
the Philippines is passing.” This awakening, in Rizal’s view,
confirmsthe “eternal laws of constant evolution, of
transformations, of periodicity,of progress.”
• In saying that both Spain and the Philippines glory in these
achievements, Rizal declares, “genius has no country; genius
sprouts everywhere; genius is like light and air, the heritage
of everyone—cosmopolitan like space, like life, and like God.”
But even as Rizal claims that genius is “cosmopolitan” and
seemingly unmoored from nature, genius is also the very
specific effusion of tropical nature, a nature that to begin with
is already embedded in a “race” with a capacity for genius,
measured using a Western standard.
THE RIZAL’S
ABANDONMENT
OF ASSIMILATION
21st day of February 1887
• “ the Filipinos had long wished for hispanization and they
were wrong in aspiring for it. It is spain and not the
Philippines who ought to wish for the assimilation of the
country”
• A peaceful struggle shall always be a dream, for spain will
never learn the lesson of her south American colonies.
Spain cannot learn what England and the United State
have learned. But, under the present circumstances, we
do no want separation from spain. All what we ask is
greater attention, better education, better government
officials, one or two representatives in parliament, and
kgreater security for persons and our properties. .

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