Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.

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

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The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army.

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

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

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

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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 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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