aggress upon  Auberon Herbert    Government, he argued, should
never initiate force but be "strictly limited to its legitimate
duties in defense of self-ownership and individual rights", and
to be consistent in not initiating force they should maintain
themselves only through "voluntary taxation." He stressed that
"we are governmentalists... formally constituted by the nation,
employing in this matter of force the majority method"
--however, using this force only in a defensive mode. He
strongly opposed the idea that initiation of force may somehow
become legitimate merely by constituting a majority, reasoning
that "If we are self-owners (and it is absurd, it is doing
violence to reason, to suppose that we are not), neither an
individual, nor a majority, nor a government can have rights of
ownership in other men.  Herbert recommends a "central agency"
to defend liberty and property that is funded by a "voluntary
tax," calling it "government." In his essay "A Politician in
Sight of Haven," Herbert does discuss