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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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Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

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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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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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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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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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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 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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: October 15th, 1909

Died: November 14th, 2000

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