Significance and Purpose
As a collection, Filipiniana materials are required for studying the Philippines. The materials are helpful in providing information on the “extent of the intellectual faculties of born” in the Philippines and the industries, likings, and inclinations of these people, and the like.
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“History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)
“The chief want, in every State that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants. This alone draws out “the great resources” of Nature, and at last taxes her beyond her resources; for man naturally dies out of her.”
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