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/^t/Secondly, Kurtz managed to build a colony which was independent of the home-government. He did not send any goods to the mother country; the collected ivory did not follow any trade procedures so, in fact, it did not have any commercial value, except the symbolic one in Kurtz's estimation. Still, the fact itself, the creation of a state which was completely independent both of the local law and the jurisdiction of the British empire can be regarded as having a spark of genius.