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I B RARY OF THE U N IVERSITY or ILLI NOIS Price One Shilling, THE MAN versm CONTAININO "THE NEW TORYISM," "THE COMING SLAVERY," "THE SINS OF LEGISLATORS " AND ^^THE GREAT POLITICAL SUPERSTITION.'^ BY HERBERT SPENCER. Reprinted fro^i THE CONTEMPORARY REVIEW, With a Postscript. WILLIAMS & NORGATE, 14, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London; AND 7, Broad Street, Oxford. THE MAN versus THE STATE: THE MAN versus THE STATE CONTAINING "THE NEW TORYISM," "THE COMING SLAYERY," "THE SINS OF LEGISLATORS" AND "THE GREAT POLITICAL SUPERSTITION.' BY HERBERT SPENCER. Reprinted from THE CONTEMPORARY REVIEW, With a Postscript. seventeenth thousand. WILLIAMS & NOEaATE, 14, Henrietta Street, Coyent Garden, London; AND 7, Broad Street, Oxford. LONDON : PRINTED BY HARRISON AND SONS, ST. MARTIN'S LANE, Printers in Ordinarj/ to His Majesty. PREFACE. The Westminster Review for April 1860, contained an article entitled " Parliamentary Reform : the Dangers and the Safe- guards." In that article I ventured to predict some results of political changes then proposed. Eeduced to its simplest expression, the thesis maintained was that, unless due precautions were taken, increase of freedom in form would be followed by decrease of freedom in fact. Nothing has occurred to alter the belief I then expressed. The drift of legislation since that time has been of the kind antici- pated. Dictatorial measures, rapidly multiplied, have tended continually to narrow the liberties of individuals; and have done this in a double way. Regulations have been made in yearly-growing numbers, restraining the citizen in directions where his actions were previously unchecked, and compelling actions which previously he m

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