Front Page Titles (by Subject) Auberon Herbert

Auberon Herbert

1838 - 1906

About the Author

Auberon Herbert (1838-1906) 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: A Plea for Liberty: An Argument against Socialism and Socialistic Legislation (1891 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: Taxation and Anarchism: A Discussion between the Hon. Auberon Herbert and J.H. Levy (1912)
• author: The Voluntaryist Creed and A Plea for Voluntaryism (1906)

Quotations:

• Auberon Herbert discusses the “essence of government” when the veneer of elections are stripped away (1894) (31 January, 2005)
• Auberon Herbert on compulsory taxation as the “citadel” of state power (1885) (18 October, 2010)
• Auberon Herbert on the “magic of private property” (1897) (23 May, 2012)