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In short the "pathologies" that Warwick Anderson has brought to our attention (without saying so directly) are the fantasies that existed in the minds of the US Military and Public Health officials, the divinely-inspired, government-appointed Civilizers of "Orientals" in the Philippines.
24) Placing Diego de San Pedro's novel within the context of Renaissance debates on the function and character of the orator and the uses of rhetoric, Maureen Ihrie (1999) interpreted the novel as a treatise setting the Humanists' Ciceronian conception of the virtuous orator, civilizer of his audience, against the Scholastics' ignoble conception of the orator and their reliance on unexamined authority and subtle, abstract reasoning.
With other themes, like Orpheus the civilizer, Henry II's entry image was transformed into the messianic emperor of the entire world.
 
 
 
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