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The Man versus the State (1885 ed.)

Political Theory

A facsimile edition of the four essays that Spencer published as <i>The Man Versus the State</i> in 1884. Spencer develops various specific disastrous ramifications of the wholesale substitution of the principle of compulsory cooperation - the statist principle - for the individualist principle of voluntary cooperation.

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The Man versus the State: containing The New Toryism, The Coming Slavery, The Sins of Legislators and The Great Political Superstition. Reprinted from The Contemporary Review, with a Postscript (London: Williams and Norgate, 1885).