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The Man Versus the State is a work of political theory by Herbert Spencer. It was first published in book form in 1884 from articles published earlier that year in The Contemporary Review. The book consists of four main chapters: "The New Toryism", "The Coming Slavery", "The Sins of Legislators" and "The Great Political Superstition". In the book, English libertarian sociologist Herbert Spencer sees a statist corruption appearing within the liberal ideological framework, and warns of what he calls "the coming slavery". He argues that liberalism, which liberated the world from slavery and feudalism, was undergoing a transformation. Its new love for the state would put liberalism behind a movement to create a new despotism that would be worse than the old.
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