If you look at the effect of England on the world you can not help but be astonished. Whatever it touched became prosperous and flourished. The USA, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, India, South Africa etc.

If you look at the effect of England on the world you can not help but be astonished. Whatever it touched became prosperous and flourished. The USA, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, India, South Africa etc. Count the USA as an extension of England and the effect goes further. [Japan after accepting an English kind of government.] [But take away the effect of England, then things fall apart quickly.] One thing that is so astonishing about this is that there was nothing in the development of England that had anything to do with being plannedl--- not philosophy, nor any political theory. [John Locke simply came to explain what had happened before him.]