Front Page Authors (by Period) Auberon Herbert

Auberon Herbert

1838 - 1906

About the Author

Auberon Herbert was an English radical individualist who was influenced by the work of Herbert Spencer. With a group of other late Victorian classical liberals he was active in such organizations as the Personal Rights and Self-Help Association and the Liberty and Property Defense League. He formulated a system of “thorough” individualism that he described as “voluntaryism.”

In The Library:

• author: A Plea for Liberty: An Argument against Socialism and Socialistic Legislation (LF ed.) (1891)
• author: The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State (1885 ed.) (1885)
• author: The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State and Other Essays (LF ed.) (1885)
• author: The Voluntaryist Creed and A Plea for Voluntaryism (1906)