First. Thou shalt love God and thy honor above all things: God as the fountain of all truth, of all justice and of all activity; and thy honor, the only power which will oblige thee to be faithful, just and industrious.

Second. Thou shalt worship God in the form which thy conscience may deem most righteous and worthy: for in thy conscience which condemns thy evil deeds and praises thy good ones, speaks thy God.

Third. Thou shalt cultivate the special gifts which God has granted thee, working and studying according to thy ability, never leaving the path of righteousness and justice, in order to attain thy own perfection, by means whereof thou shalt contribute to the progress of humanity; thus, thou shalt fulfill the mission to which God has appointed thee in this life and by so doing, thou shalt be honored, and being honored, thou shalt glorify thy God.

Fourth. Thou shalt love thy country after God and thy honor and more than thyself: for she is the only Paradise which God has given thee in this life, the only patrimony of thy race, the only inheritance of thy ancestors and the only hope of thy posterity; because of her thou hast life, love and interests, happiness, honor and God.

Fifth. Thou shalt strive for the happiness of thy country before thy own, making of her the kingdom of reason, of justice and of labor; for, if she be happy, thou, together with thy family, shalt likewise be happy.

Sixth. Thou shalt strive for the independence of thy country: for only thou canst have any real interest in her advancement and exaltation, because her independence constitutes thy own liberty; her advancement, thy perfection; and her exaltation, thy own glory and immortality.

Seventh. Thou shalt not recognize in thy country the authority of any person who has not been elected by thee and thy countrymen: for authority emanates from God, and as God speaks in the conscience of every man, the person

designated and proclaimed by the conscience of a whole people is the only one who can use true authority.

Eighth. Thou shalt strive for a Republic and never for a monarchy in thy country: for the latter exalts one or several families and founds a dynasty; the former makes a people noble and worthy through reason, great through liberty, and prosperous and brilliant through labor.

Ninth. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: for God has imposed upon him, as well as upon thee, the obligation to help thee and not to do unto thee what he would not have thee do unto him.

Tenth. Thou shalt consider thy countryman more than thy neighbor; thou shalt see him thy friend, thy brother or at least thy comrade, with whom thou art bound by one fate, by the same joys and sorrows and by common aspirations and interests.

Therefore, as long as national frontiers subsist, raised and maintained by the selfishness of race and of family, with thy countryman alone shalt thou unite in a perfect solidarity of purpose and interest, in order to have force, not only to resist the common enemy but also to attain all the aims of human life.

206. Cayetano S. Arellano.-The Filipinos have been fortunate in having excellent lawyers and judges to administer their judicial system. Some Filipino lawyers, like Icaza, Basa, Lecaroz, Joaquin Pardo de Tavera, Regidor, and La Calle, were known as great lawyers in Spanish times. Ambrosio Rianzares Bautista, Apolinario Mabini, and Felipe Calderon were the great legal minds of the Philippine Revolution. Others now living, as Florentino Torres, the first Attorney-General after American occupation and, for nearly twenty years, the

senior member of the Supreme Court; Victorino Mapa, one of the first Filipinos appointed to the Supreme Court, later Secretary of Justice and Chief Justice, and Manuel Araullo, the present Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, are notable lawyers and judges. But the Filipino who is recognized as the greatest jurist of his country is Cayetano S. Arellano.

It was given to the little province of Bataan to produce Cayetano S. Arellano. He was educated in the College of San Juan de Letran, and the University of Santo Tomas. Soon he was recognized as an able lawyer. Because of his talents, on American occupation of the Philippines, Mr. Arellano was appointed the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands, a position he occupied with distinction, until shortly before his death in December, 1920.

Chief Justice Arellano was an extremely modest man who rather shunned than sought honors. He is, however, the only Filipino to receive an honorary degree from an American university, for in 1904, Yale University conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws. It is also appropriate that the building in which the Supreme Court meets should now be called Arellano Building.

Not alone should Chief Justice Arellano be remembered as a lawyer and jurist, but he should be remembered as a man of the purest character and of the highest moral virtues. He richly deserves the tribute paid him by President Jacob Gould Schurman of Cornell University, the President of the First Philippine Commission to the Philippines, who spoke of "the Chief Justice, that model