They were hoping to find answers connected to the human existence in nature and establish laws that are hidden in it. According to their beliefs, there were all the answers that the humanity ever needed or was looking for in the simplest and the most natural things, one only had to look and analyze them closer.
United States control of Puerto Rico’s government with Puerto Ricans
becoming U.S. citizens after 1917; the Philippines providing a naval
base to guard U.S. trade in Asia, which in turn provided some
improvement in Filipino schools, roads, and healthcare.
