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GOVERNMENT 



and wise, in every direction except one. They are not to use 

 their faculties for the purpose of forcibly restraining their 

 neighbour from the same free use of his faculties. l 



And as to Governments 



They must simply defend the person and property of all 

 persons by whomsoever they are assailed. 2 



This, it will be observed, is the dictum of Locke 

 and nothing more. 



But, in the application of the theory to practice, 

 Mr. Herbert goes a good deal further than even 

 Humboldt or Dunoyer. He would do away with all 

 enforced taxation and levying of duties, and trust 

 to voluntary payments for the revenue of the 

 State. The relations of the sexes and the disposi- 

 tion of property by will are to be quite free ; traffic 

 of all kinds is to be released from restrictions; 

 state inspection is to be abolished, no less than all 

 hygienic regulations ; state education goes, as a 

 matter of course, and with it all state-aided 

 museums, libraries, galleries of art, parks, and 

 pleasure grounds. In fact, the functions of 

 government within the State are rigidly restricted 

 / to the administration of civil and criminal justice. 



But this is not all. Mr. Herbert oversteps the 

 bounds of limited Individualism and enters the 

 region of Anarchy, when he says he is not quite 

 sure that even this pittance of administrative 

 power is strictly justifiable. 



1 TVtc Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State, 1885. 

 - Ibid. p. 33. 



