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Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.
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Confucianism
Drug
Use
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Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.
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Chinese
Enemy
Opium
Poison
Enemies
Introduced
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The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army.
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Easter
Army
Domination
East
India
Indian
Based
Private
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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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American Revolution
Battle
Philosophy
Revolution
Locke
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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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British
British Empire
Empires
Never Forget
Today
Defeats
Empire
Forgets
Press
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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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East
India
Monopoly
Opium
Established
Production
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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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Littles
Should
Too Much
Atone
Perhaps
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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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Addiction
British
Chinese
Medicine
Opium
Used
Although
Widespread
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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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Examining
Example
Myth
Philosopher
Philosophy
Republic
American Republic
Behind
Easily
For Example
Jefferson
John
Locke
Steered
Thomas
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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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Education
Happiness
Dedicated
Educate
Identity
Mankind
People
Posterity
True Happiness
Life Happiness People
Efforts
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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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Founding
Influence
Myth
Philosophy
Republic
American Republic
John
Locke
Maintained
Suppressed
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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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Aspect
British
British Empire
China
Destruction
Flood
Opium
Crimes
Empire
Seizure
Takeover
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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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Levels
Needs
Order
Produce
Sufficient
Surplus
Current
Generate
Powers
Survive
To Survive
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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 and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.
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India
Ugly
Use
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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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Characteristics
Consumption
Development
Intellect
Levels
Members
Productivity
Demographic
Minimal
Standard
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At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will be celebrated by patriotic Chinese; any patriotic American should celebrate it as well.
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British
Celebrate
China
Colony
July
Midnight
Patriotic
Usa
Crown
Event
Restored
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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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Nature
Men
Certainty
Human Mind
Liberty
Pain
Pleasure
Theory
Bestial
Nation
Complete
Consists
Developed
Equally
Existed
Locke
Originally
View
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The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth.
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Achieve
Allocation
Avoiding
British
Denied
Hedonistic
Pain
Pleasure
Wealth
Naturally
Argued
Desires
Followed
Guide
Merely
Objective
Pursuing
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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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Science
Society
Technology
Factories
Infrastructure
Investment
Population
Rising
Science And Technology
Successful
Surplus
Living
Science Technology Society
Additional
Basic
Characterized
Discoveries
Generating
Increasing
Invested
Standard
Which
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