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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Social Cancer, by Jose Rizal This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org 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 Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SOCIAL CANCER *** Produced by Jeroen Hellingman. 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
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