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put up for sale. Know, however, that in the four months following itspublication, an explicit order was received in Madrid from the Superiors ofthe Franciscans it be not distributed. Much astonishment did a like exposeproduce in the mind of their own defenders. But doubtless foreseeing itscountetproductive effects to the purpose he was aiming at by this ratherresounding answer, the author decided that only a small circle of personsshould know his work, those not in any official capacity to be able toinfluence public questions in the Archipelago, and who were ignorant of theirtraditions and their actual way of life." La Armonia, II: 41 (21 March 1871).Once again it is clear that the Franciscan Superiors in Manila strictlydisapproved the spread of such a nefarious pamphlet.49. Joaquin de Coria, 0. F. M., "Los frailes en Filipinas," La Discusi6n(21 August 1869); Altar y Trono, I (13 October 1869), 395.50. Noll, 6.51. Op. cit., 156. Italics mine. The passage in, the novel refers almost ,certainly to ideas on pages 61-68 of Coria's Memoria, where the Franciscantries to show, with mathematical proof; how it is more economical for theSpanish government to continue its presence in the Philippines with friarsthan with soldiers. This curious explanation of Coria, together with otherpassages from his work, will soon becor tṙ an obligatory point of departurefor all the apologists of the presence and pennanence in the Philippines of theregular clergy. But it also seems that already from the wars of independenceof the Spanish American colonies, it had been enjoying the category of anaxiom after it was expressed by a Mexican Viceroy. See FerdinandBlumentritt, Consideraciones acerca de la actual situaci6n politica deFilipinas (Barcelona, 1889), 35. BR also cites the phrase: ".. an old viceroyof New Spain was wont to say: 'In every friar the King had in the Philippinesa Captain General and an entire army '." BR I, 41-42, which, however, citesMallat, I, 389. An anonymous author assures us that the phrase originated inthe Philippines during the British occupation of Manila in 1762: "Why did anEnglish Admiral, after signing the peace [with Anda y Salazar] pronouncethose remarkable words which later were repeated by impartial historybooks: "The King of Spain has in every missionary not only a minister of thealtar, but also a soldier and a general'?" (La Discusion, 19 August 1869).Rizal himself could also have read the same phrase in this newspaper.52. Coria, "Los frailes in Filipinas," La Discusion (21 August 1869);Altar y Trono, I, (13 October 1869), 369.278