A Plea for Liberty: An Argument against Socialism and Socialistic Legislation (1891 ed.)
- Auberon Herbert (author)
- F.W. Beauchamp Gordon (author)
- M.D. O’Brien (author)
- Frederick Millar (author)
- Arthur Raffalovich (author)
- Rev. B.H. Alford (author)
- Thomas Mackay (author)
- Edmund Vincent (author)
- Charles Fairfield (author)
- George Howell (author)
- Wordsworth Donisthorpe (author)
- Edward Stanley Robertson (author)
- Herbert Spencer (introduction)
- Thomas Mackay (editor)
This collection of essays was originally published in 1891 in response to a collection of Fabian Essays on Socialism which advocated policies which would eventually lead to the modern welfare state. The theoretical and empirical contributions are fine examples of the classical liberal tradition in British thought.