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I. General Philosophical Background -- A. The 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries -- B. The 19th and 20th Centuries -- II. The Latin American Writers of the Nineteenth Century -- A. The Positivists -- B. The Eclectics -- C. The Naturalists -- D. Juan Bautista Alberdi -- E. Miscellany -- Conclusions -- III. The Writers of the Twentieth Century -- I -- II -- IV American International Law -- A. An Historical Survey -- B. The Thesis of Alejandro Alvarez -- C. Opposition to the Alvarez Thesis, and General Latin American Opinion -- Conclusions -- Summary and Conclusions.

Translated from the English by Alejandro Licona y Galdi.

Philippineforeign policy is important to the United States for several reasons. The epigram describing the Filipinos as the most occidental of the Orientals and the most oriental of the Occidentals, emphasizes the Philippines as potentially one of the world's most important cultural bridges between these two worlds. It combines some of the best features of both areas and offers the possibility of giving each world an insight into the other. From the American standpoint the Philippines is often thought of as a show window in the Orient, and this country has a stake not only in the success of Philippine democracy, but also the Philippines provides some testimony to the fairness of American colonial policy.

The 400-yr history of Western domination of the Philippines is sketched: 'Although there is evidence of a signif Filipino culture when the Spaniards arrived, the Malay society was in many respects no match for the Hispanic. Moreover, the Spaniards set out to destroy some Malay instit's, & the US, in its turn resolved to make some other major changes.' In many areas of Philippine activity at present the 'fundamental cultural underpinning is no longer Oriental but Western.' The Presidency, the Vice-Presidency, the machinery of gov, & the local gov'al area known as the barrio are touched upon to illustrate the 'peculiarities which have characterized their adaptation to the Philippine system.' While 'pagan' pol'al practices are found to exist in some areas, the generally successful extirpation of native culture by the colonial powers 'points to great possibilities for cultural change as wrought by educ in the most comprehensive sense of that word. [It] may also afford real insights into what goes into the makeup of democracy.' M. Duke.