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the interference of the State. However, he per- 

 mits governmental regulation of the power of 

 testamentary devolution ; and (though somewhat 

 unwillingly) interference with acts which are not 

 immediately hurtful to one's neighbours, yet the 

 obvious tendencies of which are to damage them 

 or to restrict their liberties. 



By far the best and fullest exposition known to 

 me of the individualism which, in principle, goes 

 no further than Locke's formula, is Dunoyer's 

 " Liberte du Travail " of which the first volume was 

 published in 1825, and the whole work in 1845. 

 One great merit of the author is the resolute 

 casting aside all the a priori figments of his pre- 

 decessors ; and another lies in his careful and 

 elaborate discussion of the historical growth of 

 Individualism, which goes a long way towards the 

 establishment of the conclusion, that advance in 

 civilisation and restriction of the sphere of 

 Government interference have gone hand in hand. 

 J. S. Mill has referred to Dunoyer's work ; but 

 later expositors of Individualism ignore him com- 

 pletely, although they have produced nothing com- 

 parable to the weighty case for the restriction of 

 the sphere of government, presented with a force 

 which is not weakened by fanaticism, in the 

 seventh chapter of the ninth book of Dunoyer's 

 work. 



The year 1845 is further marked in the annals 

 of Individualism by the appearance of Stirner's 



