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.

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 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.

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

Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.

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.