Social Statics; or, the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of them Developed. by Herbert Spencer ... With A Notice of the Author and A Steel Portrait. (Paperback)

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Herbert Spencer's first mature statement of his individualist liberalism. A classic of libertarian political thought, it is still worth reading today. Between the green boards of this edition one can find some provocative (and later chucked) chapters such as "The Divine Idea," "The Right to the U...

from wirkman

This is, I believe, the last American printing of the first edition of "Social Statics" . . . until modern times. Included is an "Introductory Note" and a "New Preface," the former explaining Herbert Spencer's Synthetic Philosophy, and the latter cautioning readers that Spencer had withdrawn a nu...

from wirkman

Herbert Spencer's first mature statement of his individualist liberalism. A classic of libertarian political thought, it is still worth reading today. Between the green boards of this edition one can find some provocative (and later chucked) chapters such as "The Divine Idea," "The Right to the U...

from wirkman

This is, I believe, the last American printing of the first edition of "Social Statics" . . . until modern times. Included is an "Introductory Note" and a "New Preface," the former explaining Herbert Spencer's Synthetic Philosophy, and the latter cautioning readers that Spencer had withdrawn a nu...