We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time.– T. S. Eliot, 'Little Gidding'First wordI QUOTE T. S. Eliot as an epigraph for this column to underscore how magnificent, wondrous and irreplaceable the feat of Ferdinand Magellan and his men when they circumnavigated the globe and discovered the Philippine archipelago on March 16, 1521.
In order to rediscover the Philippines, it would have been necessary for the archipelago to disappear for some time in order to have to emerge again for Magellan to rediscover it.In recalling the Zaide-Agoncillo debate at the Madrid forum, Ocampo declared that two decades have passed since its outbreak. He said he wanted to believe that Filipinos have matured in the practice and interpretation of history.
Or Arrival? Obtuse Scheme To Deny Magellan An Exalted Place In PH History
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