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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.