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Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.
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The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.
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From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.
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Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.
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The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.
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The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.
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The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.
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The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a minimal standard of both demographic characteristics and of consumption.
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Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.
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The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.
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In order for a society to survive, it must generate a sufficient level of physical production both to meet its current needs, and to produce a surplus for upgrading its productive powers.
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The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army.
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We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.
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A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.
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Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.
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