From the point of view of many late Ming and Ch'ing scholars, the most syncretic, as well as the most threatening heretic of all was a nominal Confucian, Wang Yang-ming (1472-1528).

This morning, he said, I foolishly gave Eben a hundred dollars, and sent him to Boston to pay for a bill of goods which I recently bought of a wholesale house on Milk Street.

All their activities in the economic and political sphere were related to the state’s law and were performed within the statewide market for labor and commodities, and their citizen’s rights could be exercised in state elections. All these facts and forces favored the identification of the people with their state but they did not explain why this state had to be national, why the national ties were developed simultaneously with the creation of citizen states.

Unlike Spain, Cable Street was a success and proved the turning point in the defeat of Fascism in Britain in that period.