... role in shaping important policies on the Philippines, in molding the colonial discourse of Philippine culture and civilization, and in initiating the discourse to explain English in the Philippines ... righteousness of the action resulted in the misrecognition and miscalculation of Filipino responses and, in the case of the implementation of English, in the creation of a discourse to explain and rationalize ... Description of the Philippines, (Manila: Bureau of Printing, 19 03) , 227 217 Atkinson, The Philippine Islands, 408 218 Stuntz, The Philippines and the Far East, 210 219 Report of the Special Mission on...