"If the book (Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas) succeeds to awaken your consciousness of our past, already effaced from your memory, and to rectify what has been falsified and slandered, then I have not worked in vain, and with this as basis, however small it may be, we shall be able to study the future." -- Rizal's dedication on the annotation on Morga's Sucesos, Europe, 1889