Chapter Nineteen The Great Revolution

To a certain extent, this made his Enlightenment movement world-class.

What about China? During the American Revolution, the eighteenth century was China's late Ming and early Qing period, right? What were the Chinese people creatively playing with during the late Ming and early Qing? Markets? And there were creative inventions, right? But the economic foundation of our stuff was weak. We were also very harmonious—socially harmonious. Were there any sprouts of capitalism in there? So were there any discordant elements in political thought? Those rational fellows actually doubted Confucius—how hateful.

China's democratic Enlightenment thinkers—weren't there clashes too? But because the superstructure was too vast while they were too tiny, three sparks flew out and then there was nothing. In China, everything was just passing clouds.

He came from the lower-middle ranks of the nobility, one of the lesser nobles, but he received a fine education and was still part of the ruling class, right? He was a linguist, a great man of letters, a poet, a playwright, a thinker, a politician, a theorist—anyway, as long as it had something to do with—

He was also a historian. He had a famous historical work, The Age of Louis XIV.

Absolutely. In such an era, Voltaire was a remarkable artist. During the course of his development, he had once seen China's constitutional monarchy.

So he believed the United States should learn from Britain and should take absolute monarchy—but he believed there had to be a transitional period from absolute autocracy to constitutional democratic government. Though it was autocratic during that transition, it treated the common people well, and he did not oppose it.

His mother was named Ma Jiahui.

He opposed autocratic government. He did everything.

Such a figure.

In the history of the United States.

In the history of modern human