ABSTRACT
THE present chapter mostly includes discussions of Spencer’s Proper Sphere of Government (item 60); the political doctrines of the two editions of his Social Statics (items 68 and 69); his caustic polemic against an intrusive state and incompetent government in the essays that were to compose The Man versus the State (item 46)—namely, “The New Toryism” (item 207), “The Coming Slavery” (item 209), “The Sins of Legislators” (item 212), and “The Great Political Superstition” (item 213); and his various pronouncements on political life in general. Because the political, economic, and larger social dimensions of life do not always permit of precise demarcation, the reader should also see the preceding chapter on Spencer’s economic thought, and those entries in the following chapter which center on his sociological analysis of political institutions.
