20. From The Voluntaryist Creed | Individualism: A Reader
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Date: 2015-07-01

The Voluntaryist Creed: Being the Herbert Spencer Lecture Delivered at Oxford, June 7, 1906 (London: Oxford University, 1908)

Auberon Herbert (1838-1906) served as a member of Parliament from 1870 to 1874, only to repudiate the political process as a means of bringing about social change. Herbert turned instead to individualism and the spontaneous, voluntary cooperation of free individuals in a free market. Here Herbert contrasts a society governed by political power with a society of free individuals.

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