This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... mostly Utopian, even had t political conditions and Rizal's deportation brought it virtually to naught. In the pledges of its brothers to stand by each other for the remedy of abuses as well as for other things, the League very plainly looked toward unity of action in matters social and political, and doubt the idea of bringing his people together for such political action as might become possible was foremost in the mind of Rizal and its other organizers. But this does t prove the charge that it merely covered up a plan to get arms and rise in rebellion as soon as possible. The Katipunan.-We come w to the parting of the ways. Just as Marcelo del Pilar had concluded that the time was at hand for more vigorous measures, so on the other hand some of the Filipis of education and social position (cautious also, in some cases, because of their property) had become discouraged and faint-hearted. The deportation of Rizal had its effect in 1892, and the local government reforms of 1893-94 were followed by a reactionary government in Spain which might nullify even such concessions, in the face of the constant demand for a check upon the half-liberal regime of Blanco. Some of the middle-class leaders of Manila, who had been drawn into the Masonic movement, had decided that the time had come to organize the masses, at least in the Tagalog provinces. Andres Bonifacio, an employe of a foreign business house in Manila, was the leading spirit; gathering his ideas of modern reform from reading Spanish treatises on the French Revolution, he had imbibed also a tion that the methods of the mob in Paris were those best adapted to secure amelioration for the Filipis. His ideas were those of a socialist, and of a socialist of the French Revolution...