Herbert Spencer develops the disastrous ramifications of the substitution of the principle of compulsory cooperation — the statist principle — for the individualist principle of voluntary cooperation. His theme: “There is in society... that beautiful self-adjusting principle which will keep all its elements in equilibrium.... The attempt to regulate all the actions of a community by legislation will entail little else but misery and compulsion.”

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