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Introduction The year 2007 marked the 350th anniversary of the death of John Lilburne, a remarkable Englishman. He became known to his contemporaries as “Freeborn John.”  He described himself as “a lover of his country and sufferer for the common liberty.” His biographer Pauline Gregg concluded: He could be called the first English Radical—a

[This essay is excerpted from the original published by the Libertarian Alliance .] Darwin and Spencer Compared Last year marked the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Darwin. But this essay is not about Charles Darwin. It is about a contemporary of his, Herbert Spencer, who was developing a theory of evolution before Darwin and is credited with