First published 1851
Social Statics: or, The Conditions essential to Happiness specified, and the First of them Developed
Social Statics: or, The Conditions essential to Happiness specified, and the First of them Developed by Herbert Spencer is available as a free PDF and EPUB download at freecapitalists.org.
- Herbert Spencer
- First published
- 1851
- Format
- PDF and EPUB
- Pages
- 324
- Publisher
- London: John Chapman, 1851; Online Library of Liberty edition
- License
- Public domain by publication date.
Herbert Spencer's first major work, in which he tries to base a limited state on a doctrine of natural rights. It starts from the first principle that each person may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties that is compatible with the same liberty for others, and draws out its consequences, including the well-known chapter on the right to ignore the state.
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- How long is Social Statics: or, The Conditions essential to Happiness specified, and the First of them Developed?
- 324 pages, 258 chapters, and about 170,393 words in the edition this archive serves.
- Who wrote Social Statics: or, The Conditions essential to Happiness specified, and the First of them Developed?
- 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. This archive holds 15 of Spencer's works.
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258 chapters · 170,393 words · free to read here
- LITERARY GAZETTE.
- ECONOMIST.
- LEADER.
- NONCONFORMIST.
- NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE.
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
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In the lecture archive
Lectures that discuss Social Statics: or, The Conditions essential to Happiness specified, and the First of them Developed
9 recorded talks in this archive name this book. The 6 that discuss it most, each linked to the moment it comes up:
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Social Statics, page 384 These were not the only law-made causes of such evils, as shown in the following further passage.
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The second is Spencer's most famous systemic treatise in this area, Social Statics, of 1851.
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The Market in Defense of Markets: The Impact of the New Technology
In his Social Statics, Herbert Spencer thought that an instinct of our freedom and a sympathy which makes us respect the likely freedom of our fellows compose a mechanism capable of establishing social contrasts in which the low-equal freedom that, …
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4. Binary Intervention: Taxation
The same position is found earlier, to a far less developed extent, in the early editions of Herbert Spencer's Social Statics, particularly his chapter on the right to ignore the state and in Thoreau's Essay on Civil Disobedience.
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… thing, until very recently in this century, there have been virtually no libertarian political philosophers, and even in the far more libertarian 19th century, only Herbert Spencer's great Social Statics, 1851, set forth a thorough and systematic theory of liberty.
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For example, Herbert Spencer in the first edition of Social Statics does give a view where, just like the one you're suggesting, that was one that I think Henry George was influenced by, so I think you can certainly see …
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