We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.

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.

The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.

Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

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.

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.