This book places Spencer's famous argument for political individualism in his The Man versus the State alongside his early The Proper Sphere of Government, out of which, after due gestation, emerged not only The Man versus the State but ...

Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era.

Progress : its law and cause -- Manners and fashion -- The genesis of science -- The physiology of laughter -- The origin and function of music -- The nebular hypothesis -- Bain on the emotions and the will -- Illogical geology -- The ...

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