Titles by Herbert Spencer

1820 – 1903

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. Much of the rest of his life was spent working on an all-encompassing theory of human development based upon the ideas of individualism, utilitarian moral theory, social and biological evolution, limited government, and laissez-faire economics.

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Titles

An Autobiography, 2 vols. (1904)

Herbert Spencer

An Autobiography, vol. 1

Herbert Spencer

An Autobiography, vol. 2

Herbert Spencer

The Data of Ethics (1879)

Herbert Spencer

Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects (1861, 1911)

Herbert Spencer

Essays: Scientific, Political and Speculative, 3 vols. (1891)

Herbert Spencer

Essays: Scientific, Political and Speculative, Vol. 1

Herbert Spencer

Essays: Scientific, Political and Speculative, Vol. 2

Herbert Spencer

Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative, vol. 3

Herbert Spencer

First Principles (1867)

Herbert Spencer

Justice: Being Part IV of the Principles of Ethics (1891)

Herbert Spencer

The Man versus the State (1885 ed.)

Herbert Spencer

The Man versus the State, with Six Essays on Government, Society and Freedom (LF ed.)

Herbert Spencer

Political Institutions, being Part V of the Principles of Sociology

Herbert Spencer

The Principles of Ethics, 2 vols. (1879) (LF ed.)

Herbert Spencer

The Principles of Ethics, vol. 1 (LF ed.)

Herbert Spencer

The Principles of Ethics, vol. 2 (LF ed.)

Herbert Spencer

The Principles of Psychology (1855)

Herbert Spencer

The Principles of Sociology, 3 vols. (1898)

Herbert Spencer

The Principles of Sociology, vol. 1 (1898)

Herbert Spencer

The Principles of Sociology, vol. 2 (1898)

Herbert Spencer

The Principles of Sociology, vol. 3 (1898)

Herbert Spencer

Social Statics (1851)

Herbert Spencer

The Study of Sociology (1873)

Herbert Spencer

A Plea for Liberty: An Argument against Socialism and Socialistic Legislation (LF ed.)

Thomas Mackay

A Plea for Liberty: An Argument against Socialism and Socialistic Legislation (1891 ed.)

Auberon Herbert

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