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The Man versus the State is a political theory book by Herbert Spencer〔http://www.econlib.org/library/LFBooks/Spencer/spnMvS0.html〕 It was first published in book form in 1884 by Williams and Norgate, London and Edinburgh, from articles previous published in The Contemporary Review. The book consists of 4 main chapters : The New Toryism, The coming Slavery, The sins of legislators and The Great Political Superstition. In this book, English libertarian sociologist Herbert Spencer sees a statist corruption appearing within the liberal ideological framework, and warns of what he calls, "the coming slavery". And he presents the argument that liberalism, which liberated the world from slavery and feudalism, was undergoing a transformation. Its new love for the state would put liberalism behind a movement to create a new despotism that would be worse than the old. Henry Hazlitt has once said that this is "One of the most powerful and influential arguments for limited government, laissez faire and individualism ever written.".〔https://mises.org/library/man-versus-state〕 ==The New Toryism== In the first chapter of the Book, Herbert Spencer starts by saying, that those of which who now pass as Liberals, actually act as Tories of a new type, and proceeds by arguing that the so-called liberals, who once fought for liberalization, liberties and limiting the power of the nobility, have now obtained interest in increasing the power of the parliament and the government instead of giving liberties to the people; the liberals have changed their ways completely and adopted measures of increasing their importance in the lives of men just as the Tories did, by keeping power into their own hands. In his own words : Spencer argues that these new "Liberals" simply exchanged the power of the kings to the parliament.〔http://www.econlib.org/library/LFBooks/Spencer/spnMvS1.html#The New Toryism〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Man Versus The State」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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