Filipino national hero Jose Rizal wrote The Social Cancer in Berlin in 1887. Upon his return to his country, he was summoned to the palace by the Governor General because of the subversive ideas his book had inspired in the nation. Rizal wrote of his consequent persecution by the church: "My book made a lot of noise; everywhere, I am asked about it. They wanted to anathematize me [‘to excommunicate me’] because of it … I am considered a German spy, an agent of Bismarck, they say I am a Protestant, a freemason, a sorcerer, a damned soul and evil. It is whispered that I want to draw plans, that I have a foreign passport and that I wander through the streets by night …"
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语言 英语 ● 格式 PDF ● 网页 598 ● ISBN 9781775569633 ● 翻译者 Charles Derbyshire ● 出版者 The Floating Press ● 发布时间 2009 ● 下载 3 时 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 6679737 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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