The True Story of Diego Silang, A Philippine Patriot

(Diego Silang)

We might say that every man who has been a prominent figure in history is a kind of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde whose character differs when viewed from different angles. Their friends and their foes judge them from opposite sides. In striving to judge impartially it may be they are not so white as painted by their friends nor so black as painted by their enemies for posterity is inclined to analyze histories written by prejudiced parties with a view of revising them to facts. Relative to Diego Silang, the historians of that day were ecclesiastics who saw him as a heretic who led an unsuccessful revolt - a revolt ended by his assassination at the age of thirty-three.