The essential point of this book is the freedom of thoughts. Apart from regulations of social development, the author also reveals the granted states of a country and a society.

Social Statics is a masterpiece of Herbert Spencer. The author illustrates his arguments through a variety of examples and he attempts on various issues including society, government, human right, education and so on.

Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era.

Spencer developed an all-embracing conception of evolution as the progressive development of the physical world, biological organisms, the human mind, and human culture and societies. He was "an enthusiastic exponent of evolution" and even "wrote about evolution before Darwin did."