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

The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.