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