Man Versus the State With Four Essays on Politics and Society

Name: Man Versus the State With Four Essays on Politics and Society
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ISBN: 9780140400106

ISBN-10: 0140400109

ISBN-13: 9780140400106

Edition: 1969

Authors: Herbert Spencer

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Excerpt from The Man Versus the State: Containing "the New Toryism," "the Coming Slavery," "the Sins of Legislators," and "the Great Political Superstition;" The Westminster Review for April 1860, contained an article entitled Parliamentary Reform: the Dangers and the Safe guards. In that article I ventured to predict some results of political changes then proposed. Reduced to its simplest expression, the thesis maintained was that, unless due precautions were taken, increase of freedom in form would be followed by decrease of freedom in fact. Nothing has occurred to alter the belief I then expressed. The drift of legislation since that time has been of the kind antici pated. Dictat'orial…