Auberon Herbert: Advocate of Reason, Individual Rights, and Limited Government

A Vision of Individual Sovereignty and the Moral Basis of Freedom

Auberon Herbert (1838–1906) was a 19th-century British political philosopher and member of Parliament, who recognized that each individual has inalienable rights to direct his own mind and body, and to keep and use the product of his own effort. In defense of these rights, Herbert advocated a strictly limited, voluntarily funded, rights-protecting gover…