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• The britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire: the takeover…
• At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event…
• A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the…
• The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a…
• Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.
• Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting…
• The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army.
• From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory…
• Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.
• We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.
• The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.
• The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.

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