The British seizure of Hongkong was an a... by Robert Trout

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The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.

- Robert Trout

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Fear

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

- Robert Trout

American

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.

- Robert Trout

Happiness Life People

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.

- Robert Trout

Company

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

- Robert Trout

American Fact

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

- Robert Trout

History

The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.

- Robert Trout

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