The Man versus The State (Introduction) by Herbert Spencer

In his 1884 classic, "The Man versus the State", English libertarian sociologist Herbert Spencer sees a statist corruption appearing within the liberal ideological framework, and warns of what he calls "the coming slavery." He argues that liberalism, which liberated the world from slavery and feudalism, was undergoing a transformation.
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Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was one of the leading 19th-century English radical individualists. He began working as a journalist for the laissez-faire magazine The Economist in the 1850s. Much of the rest of his life was spent working on an all-encompassing theory of human development based upon the ideas of individualism, utilitarian moral theory, social and biological evolution, limited government, and laissez-faire economics.
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Social Statics, or The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of them Developed
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The Right to Ignore the State
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Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical
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On Moral Education
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The Principles of Ethics, Vol. 1
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The Principles of Ethics, Vol. 2
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Justice: Being Part IV of the Principles of Ethics
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The Principles of Sociology, Vol. 1
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The Principles of Sociology, Vol. 2
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The Principles of Sociology, Vol. 3
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Political Institutions, being Part V of the Principles of Sociology
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The Study of Sociology
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Essays: Scientific, Political and Speculative, Vol. 1
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Essays: Scientific, Political and Speculative, Vol. 2
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Essays: Scientific, Political and Speculative, Vol. 3
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Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects
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The Principles of Psychology
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The Data of Ethics
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First Principles
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An Autobiography, Vol. 1
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An Autobiography, Vol. 2
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