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Title: The Social Cancer
A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere
Author: José 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
José Rizal
By
Charles Derbyshire
Manila
Philippine Education Company
New York: World Book Company
1912
THE NOVELS OF JOSÉ 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
