An Epoch in History
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An Epoch in History - P. H. Eley
P. H. Eley
An Epoch in History
Published by Good Press, 2022
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EAN 4057664599131
Table of Contents
PREFACE.
AN EPOCH IN HISTORY.
MANILA.
A DRAMA IN ACTUAL LIFE.
WHAT THE TEACHERS DID.
A BAILE.
A SKETCH OF LIFE IN THE PHILIPPINES.
THE FILIPINO AT HOME.
VISIT TO A LEPER COLONY.
A HIKE.
PREFACE.
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It was the good fortune of the author to take part in a movement without precedent in the history of the world, and the incidents concurrent with, together with those subsequent to that movement, have furnished the material for this book. It has been the object of the writer to weave into the story of his actual experiences an account of those things which are as yet an unexplored field in the realm of letters. The work is submitted to the reader in the hope that it will prove to be pregnant with interest to those who are in sympathy with great movements and to those who listen with delight to stories of personal experiences in distant lands and among strange peoples.
The Author.
The Virginia Polytechnic Institute, April, 1904.
CHAPTER I.
AN EPOCH IN HISTORY.
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Few people pause to think that Tuesday, the twenty-third day of July, nineteen hundred and one, not only placed a mile-stone on the road of civilization, but also marked an epoch in the history of the world.
That day placed a mile-stone on the road of civilization because it saw the culmination of one of the greatest movements ever attempted in behalf of common school education. It marked an epoch in the history of the world because, for the first time within the knowledge of man, a conquering people, instead of sending battalions of soldiers to hold the conquered in subjection, sent a carefully selected body of men and women to carry to them the benefits of a highly developed society.
It was on this day that the United States Government sent from San Francisco four hundred and ninety-nine trained men and women to establish throughout the Philippine Islands a system of free public schools.
The ball on the tower of the Ferry Building in San Francisco had just fallen, announcing the hour of noon on the one hundred and twentieth meridian, when the propellers began revolving and the United States Army Transport Thomas
swung out into the middle of the bay, where it dropped anchor for a few moments while some belated boxes of lemons and a few other articles were added to the equipment of the steward’s department.
The anchor was again on its way to the surface when a row-boat driven by four oarsmen with drawn muscles and clenched teeth glided in under the bow of the