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Auberon Herbert
Overview
Auberon Edward William Molyneux Herbert (18 June 1838 – 5 November 1906) was an English writer, theorist, philosopher and 19th-century individualist. A son of the 3rd Earl of Carnarvon, he was a Liberal Member of Parliament for the two-member constituency of Nottingham from 1870 to 1874. He promoted a classical liberal philosophy and took the ideas of Herbert Spencer a stage further by advocating voluntary-funded government that uses force only in defence of individual liberty and private property. He is known as the originator of voluntaryism.
A Radical in his parliamentary years, Herbert declared himself a republican in the House of Commons, voted for women's suffrage, co-sponsored the 1872 Proportional Representation Bill, championed the agricultural labourers' union movement of Joseph Arch, and took a leading part in the passing of the Wild Birds Protection Act 1872. He was the founder of the Savile Club and belonged to the Radical Club of Henry Fawcett.
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The British government is thus a representative government in the correct sense of the term; and the powers which it leaves in hands not directly accountable to the people can only be considered as precautions which the ruling power is willing should be taken against its own errors. Such precautions have existed in all well-constructed democracies. The Athenian Constitution had many such provisions, and so has that…
John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government
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This is not the principle on which the labouring classes are professedly governed in any free country; and no person who sets due value on freedom will give his adhesion to their being so governed, unless after all efforts have been exhausted to educate them for freedom and govern them as freemen, and it has been definitively proved that they can only be governed as children. The bare statement of the alternative…
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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The liberty of the subject asserted in our constitution, and ever on the increase, has yet to be wrested from this subtler tyranny. The right of private judgment, which our ancestors wrung from the church, remains to be claimed from this dictator of our habits. Or, as before said, to free us from these idolatries and superstitious conformities, there has still to come a protestanism in social usages.
Herbert Spencer, Essays on education and kindred subjects
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- Individualism
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- Anarchist communism
- Murray Rothbard
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe
- Herbert Spencer
- Conservative Party (UK)
- Democratic socialism
- Benjamin Tucker
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- Richard Sylvan
- Liberal Party (UK)
- World War I
- Peter Kropotkin
- Paris Commune
- Classical liberalism
- American Civil War
- J. A. Hobson
Place in the tradition
Part of Liberalism.