- The document summarizes Jose Rizal's 1889 essay "Philippines A Century Hence", where he forecasts the future of the Philippines within 100 years under Spanish colonial rule. - Rizal predicted the deterioration and disappearance of Filipino indigenous culture due to Spain's implementation of oppressive military policies that depopulated the country and caused widespread poverty. - He also expected the Filipino people to become passive and submissive to Spanish colonizers, but that national consciousness would eventually awaken and unite the people.

1. Philippines A Century
Hence
Escullar, Rowelle Aliana
Mendoza, Karen
Nase, Shann Carden
Sumo, Mar John

2. SUMMARY
•Forecast the future of the country within a
hundred years
•Spain’s implementation of her military policies
•Deterioration and disappearance of Filipino
indigenous culture
•Passivity and submissiveness to the Spanish
colonizers

3. Filipinas Dentro De CienAños
(Philippines A Century Hence)
• this essay came out as a series of four (4)
articles in the La Solidaridad
September 30, 1889
February 1, 1890 (Romero al,1978)
“ it is necessary to open the book that tells
to our past, before its destiny can be predicted.”
- Rizal

4. Spain’s implementation of her
military policies
As a consequence of these
policies:
•The country was depopulated
•Poverty became widespread
•Families and farmlands
neglected

5. Deterioration and Disappearance of
Indigenous Culture of the Filipinos
it began the gradual destruction
of the native Philippine culture:
• Filipinos started losing confidence in their
past and their heritage
• Became doubtful of their present lifestyle
• Eventually lost hope in the future and the
preservation of their race

6. Passivity and submissiveness to
the Spanish colonizers
• they had resigned themselves to their
fates.
• the awakening of the national
consciousness among the people had
united them.
• the spread of enlightenment, the
ilustrado class arose.

7. Third Article of Rizal’s Essay
Rizal raises in this essay is whether or
not Spain can indeed prevent the
progress of the Philippines:
• Keeping the people uneducated and
ignorant had failed. National
consciousness had still awakened, and
great Filipino minds still emerged from
the rubble.

8. Third Article of Rizal’s Essay
• Keeping the people impoverished also
came to no avail. On the contrary, living
a life of eternal destitution had allowed
the Filipinos to act on the desire for a
change in their way of life. They began
to explore other horizons through which
they could move towards progress.

9. Third Article of Rizal’s Essay
• Exterminating the people as an
alternative to hindering progress did not
work either. The Filipino race was able
to survive amidst wars and famine, and
became even more numerous after such
catastrophes. To wipe out the nation
altogether would require the sacrifice of
thousands of Spanish soldiers, and this is
something Spain would not allow.

10. What Rizal had envisioned in his
essay came true
• In 1898, the Americans wrestled with
Spain to win the Philippines, and
eventually took over the country.
• Theirs was a reign of democracy and
liberty.
• Five decades after Rizal’s death, the
Philippines gained her long-awaited
independence.

11. This was in fulfillment of what
he had written in his essay:
“History does not record in its
annals any lasting domination by
one people over another, of different
races, of diverse usages and
customs, of opposite and divergent
ideas. One of the two had to yield
and succumb.”