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Title: The Social Cancer
A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere

Author: Jose Rizal

Translator: Charles Derbyshire

Release Date: June 17, 2007 [EBook #6737]

Language: English

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The Social Cancer

A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere from the Spanish of
Jose Rizal

By

Charles Derbyshire

Manila
Philippine Education Company
New York: World Book Company
1912

THE NOVELS OF JOSE RIZAL

Translated from Spanish into English

BY CHARLES DERBYSHIRE

THE SOCIAL CANCER (NOLI ME TANGERE)
THE REIGN OF GREED (EL FILIBUSTERISMO)

Copyright, 1912, by Philippine Education Company.
Entered at Stationers' Hall.
Registrado en las Islas Filipinas.
All rights reserved.

TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION

I

"We travel rapidly in these historical sketches. The reader
flies in his express train in a few minutes through a couple
of centuries. The centuries pass more slowly to those to
whom the years are doled out day by day. Institutions grow
and beneficently develop themselves, making their way into
the hearts of generations which are shorter-lived than they,
attracting love and respect, and winning loyal obedience;
and then as gradually forfeiting by their shortcomings
the allegiance which had been honorably gained in worthier
periods. We see wealth and greatness; we see corruption and
vice; and one seems to follow so close upon the other, that we
fancy they must have always co-existed. We look more steadily,
and we per