First published 1891

Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative (Library Edition, 1891, 3 vols.)

Name: Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative (Library Edition, 1891, 3 vols.)
Author: Herbert Spencer

London: Williams and Norgate, 1891 (Library Edition, 3 vols.); Online Library of Liberty edition

Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative (Library Edition, 1891, 3 vols.) by Herbert Spencer is available as a free PDF and EPUB download at freecapitalists.org.

Author: Herbert Spencer
First published: 1891
Format: PDF and EPUB
License: Public domain by publication date.

Spencer's collected essays in the three-volume Library Edition of 1891, which adds seven essays not previously republished. The essays range over political philosophy, sociology, biology, psychology, and current affairs, and include well-known papers such as Over-Legislation and The Social Organism alongside his arguments against state interference.

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Herbert Spencer 1820–1903

Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) was one of the leading 19th-century English radical individualists. He began working as a journalist for the laissez-faire magazine The Economist in the 1850s. Read more about Herbert Spencer.

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