# Social Laws, Part 10

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/excursions/social-laws-part-10>

**By** George H. Smith

**Published:** May 3, 2017

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George H. Smith explores Emile Durkheim’s major objections to Herbert Spencer’s theory of a free society based on voluntary contracts.

[Originally published in essay form on October 10, 2014.](https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/social-laws-part-10)

_Narrated by Daniel Hyland._