Rizal had a pervading constancy and love for his country which meant love for justice, for liberty and for personal dignity. He was the first Filipino to give expression to Philippine nationalism in his writings, to chart a route to national unity for his people and to elaborate nationalism as tangent to freedom and emancipation. This was the time when the Filipinos had no sense of national consciousness nor a desire for independence. In his novels he envisioned a fulfilled society, an emancipated people and a progressive nation mature in political freedom. This dream was nursed at a time when it was political treason for a Spanish subject to conceive of a society independent of Spain.

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