My favorite civilization is the Persian.
I also agree with Basra in regards to the English and during the great era of humanism movement (rationalism, empiricism, and the renaissance even tho it begun in Italy). I like many British intellectuals as well as policy makers----great thinkers really inspired by the age of so called critical thinking.
I like English thinkers such as Francis Bacon, Sir Thomas More, Edmund Spenser, and Sir Philip Sidney just to name few. From later period I like the likes of John Locke, Edward Taylor and John Cotton...even from later period I like Cecil John Rhodes whom Africans hate because of his visionary ways of creating the British Empire almost all over the entire African continent. His work no doubt inspired me, which in turn was inspired by The Martyrdom of Man by William Winwood Reade. Thinker's Library is one of the greatest British institutions.
Of course the moral behind all of them is one should be rational, intellectually adequate and most of all stop playing victim and be a go getter.
The English were very interesting. In short time, they conquered the most with the least effort and one should understand how....intellectual (
specifically Cambridge and Oxford) and finance.
These two institutions just franchised the rest of their many arms...banks came under Bank of England and schools came under their two great universities even Harvard was created by them...small group from Cambridge-------the Puritans who repelled the Church of England.
Each institution created a franchisee hence East India Company, The Virginia Company of London (in charge of Americas colonies), British South Africa Company, etc. Their empire was designed to be run like a corporate with minimum armies even armies were funded by privates. These British from the middle ages were some of the greatest thinkers and that's why today you and I type English.
Rhodes who curved out the southern Africa empire for the British with his own savings and extra funds from Rothschild, was an excellent thinker. He went on to create the Rhodes Scholarship and until recently it was the must have credential for world thinkers. Bill Clinton obtained one and he was a respected President.
One of the first banks to fund British empire was Rothschild and the so called House of Morgan (JP Morgan Chase - Julius Morgan and Peabody). The JP later funded and finance the US Federal Reserve Bank during the "panic of 1907".
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makes sense!
