About the work

  • Year: 1851
  • Author: “Herbert Spencer”
  • Edition language: en
  • Source format: catalog
  • Editorial status: bibliographic catalog entry

Editorial note

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Source

Primary catalog source: Project Gutenberg metadata snapshot. Reading source: “https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34649”

Summary

A concise statement of Spencer’s anti-paternalist argument about political authority.

Themes

  • individualism
  • liberalism
  • state