16. From True Civilization | Individualism: A Reader
Channel: Libertarianism.org
Date: 30/06/2015

True Civilization: An Immediate Necessity, and the Last Ground of Hope for Mankind (Boston: J. Warren, 1868)

The American libertarian Josiah Warren (1798-1874) popularized, if he did not actually coin, the expression "self-sovereignty" among American and British individualists, including J. S. Mill. In this excerpt, Warren articulates his belief that the self-sovereignty of voluntary individualism is the foundation of a peaceful social order.

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