That science has long been neglected and declining in England is not an opinion originating with me but is shared by many and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.
In the final analysis the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within.
Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.