, i.e. freemason.

[139] Scholastic theologians.--TR.

[140] And yet it does move!

[141] I am a man and nothing that concerns humanity do I consider
foreign to me.

[142] A portion of the closing words of Virgil's third eclogue,
equivalent here to "Let the curtain drop."--TR.

[143] "Whatever is hidden will be revealed, nothing will remain
unaccounted for." From _Dies Irae_, the hymn in the mass for the dead,
best known to English readers from the paraphrase of it in Scott's
_Lay of the Last Minstrel_. The lines here quoted were thus metrically
translated by Macaulay:

"What was distant shall be near,
What was hidden shall be clear."--TR.

[144] A common nickname. See the Glossary, under _Nicknames.--TR_.

[145] The Marianas, or Ladrone Islands, were used as a place of
banishment for political prisoners.--TR.

[146] "Evil Omen," a nickname applied by the friars to General Joaquin
Jovellar, who was governor of the Islands from 1883 to 1885. It fell
to the lot of General Jovellar, a kindly old man, much more soldier
than administrator, to attempt the introduction of certain salutary
reforms tending toward progress, hence his disfavor with the holy
fathers. The mention of "General J----" in the last part of the
epilogue probably refers also to him.--TR.

[147] A celebrated Italian astronomer, member of the Jesuit Order. The
Jesuits are still in charge of the Observatory of Manila.--TR.

[148] "Our Lady of the Girdle" is the patroness of the Augustinian
Order.--TR.

[149] This image is in the six-million-peso steel church of
St. Sebastian in Manila. Something of her early history is thus given
by Fray Luis de Jesus in his _Historia_ of the Recollect Order (1681):
"A very holy image is revered there under the title of Carmen. Although
that image is small in stature, it is a great and perennial spring
of prodigies for those who invoke her. Our religious took it from
Nueva Espana (Mexico), and even in that very navigation she was able
to make herself known by her miracles .... That most holy image is
daily frequented with vows, presents, and novenas, thank-offerings
of the many who are daily favored by that queen of the skies."--Blair
and Robertson, _The Philippine Islands_, Vol. XXI, p. 195.

[150] The oldest and most conservative newspaper in Manila at the
time this work was written.--TR.

[151] Following closely upon the liberal administration of La Torre,
there occurred in th