With Fervor Burning

PREFACE + + Some people concentrate on one special field and become successful after a lifetime of hard work. Hilarion M. Henares, Jr, can be said to have been leaping from crag to crag and from peak to peak in many different fields, and has achieved success in each of them incredible for a man of his tender years. He obtained his training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he distinguished himself with a high scholastic record. At the age of 25 he was the youngest Dean of a private graduate school. Before thirty he was the head of an industrial complex making 56 different products and was subsequently elected president of the Philippine Chamber of Industries. He made one movie and it won the coveted award of '"the best documentary film of the year." He and his family also received the distinction of having been chosen as the year's exemplary family. Henares rightly deserves what Dr. Lilian Gilbreth said of him: "the father of Management Revolution in the Philippines." Henares is a writer, and may be considered one of our liberal intellectuals. His passion for nationalism and the widening of the forces and benefits of democracy to improve the lot of our masses he has made the controlling principle in his official acts. Henares' confident faith in our people's capacity to rise and fulfill the expectations of Dr. Jose Rizal, if embodied in a political action can, with the support and gathering of a mass movement, inexorably usher him in the center of the historical process. It is often said that the twentieth century is the century of revolutions. But most importantly, the 1960's saw a new kind of leadership asserted, such as that of President Kennedy in the American scene and Prime Minister Wilson in England. The Old Order is passing from the scene and we are witnessing a general intellectual and social ferment the implications of which are likely to re-shape our institutions, our concept of values, the structures of our economic and social life. This slim volume clearly indicates the tone and magnitude of Henares' basic philosophy and ideas. Whether it be in economics, or in his more intense moments, in matters affecting the dilemma of man himself in this mechanized world, Henares displays a passion for truth and an intelligence capable of assimilating seemingly disparate aspects of culture and presenting them in the coherence of a solid logical structure. In the manner of the celebrated dramatist, Eugene Ionesco, Henares does not stop asking questions, a supreme quality which is characteristic of an engaging and living mind. And in the questions he asks, we are able to perceive the glimmer of the significance of the human effort in our own society and time. This, I believe, is what makes for the cogency and importance of the present volume. + + January 26, 1965 + + CARLOS P. ROMULO + + + + + (First Article) + + THE MAGNIFICENT FAILURE He was born poor and despised. But he was good and gentle and just. He was full of ideas, great ideas that threatened to topple an empire, ideas that were to change the face of the earth. He was a real revolutionary. He was like the communists in a certain sense, in that he wanted everyone to get a share of the wealth of the world. But unlike the communists, he did not say "What is yours, is mine." He said, "What is mine, is yours " Because he was an agitator, he incurred the disfavor of men of wealth and political power. They drove him out of their cities. They beat him up and called him a fool, and set the police on his friends. Finally they arrested him. A friend betrayed him. The rest of his friends deserted him. And he went through the mockery of a trial. His enemies tortured him, and when they got tired of doing that, they sent him to die like a common criminal. While he was dying, his executioners gambled for the only piece of property he had on earth, and that was his tattered robe. Was he a failure, this man they called Jesus Christ? (Excerpts+ more inside).