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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 España (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 the Cavite arsenal in
1872 a mutiny which was construed as an incipient rebellion, and for alleged complicity in it three native
priests, Padres Burgos, Gomez, and Zamora, were garroted, while a number of prominent Manilans were
deported.--TR.
[152] What do I see? ... Wherefore?
[153] What do you wish? Nothing is in the intellect which has not first passed through the senses; nothing is
willed that is not already in the mind.
[154] Where in the world are we?
[155] The uprising of Ibarra suppressed by the alferez of the Civil Guard? And now?
[156] Friend, Plato is dear but truth is dearer ... It's a bad business and a horrible result from these things is to
be feared.
[157] Against him who denies the fundamentals, clubs should be used as arguments.
[158] Latin prayers. "Agnus Dei Catolis" for "Agnus Dei qui tollis" (John I. 29).
[159] Woe unto them! Where there's smoke there's fire! Like seeks like; and if Ibarra is hanged, therefore you