The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
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THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS PAINE
COLLECTED AND EDITED BY MONCURE DANIEL CONWAY
VOLUME II.
1779 - 1792
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
XIII The Rights of Man
PART THE FIRST BEING AN ANSWER TO MR. BURKE'S ATTACK ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
* Editor's Introduction * Dedication to George Washington * Preface to the English Edition * Preface to the French Edition * Rights of Man * Miscellaneous Chapter * Conclusion
XIV The Rights of Man
PART THE SECOND COMBINING PRINCIPLE AND PRACTICE
* French Translator's Preface * Dedication to M. de la Fayette * Preface * Introduction * Chapter I Of Society and Civilisation * Chapter II Of the Origin of the Present Old Governments * Chapter III Of the Old and New Systems of Government * Chapter IV Of Constitutions * Chapter V Ways and Means of Improving the Condition of Europe, Interspersed with Miscellaneous Observations
* Appendix * Notes
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THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS PAINE
COLLECTED AND EDITED BY MONCURE DANIEL CONWAY
VOLUME II.
1779 - 1792
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XIII.
RIGHTS OF MAN.
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION.
WHEN Thomas Paine sailed from America for France, in April, 1787, he was perhaps as happy a man as any in the world. His most intimate friend, Jefferson, was Minister at Paris, and his friend Lafayette was the idol of France. His fame had preceded him, and he at once became, in Paris, the centre of the same circle of savants and philosophers that had surrounded Franklin. His main reason for proceeding at once to Paris was that he might submit to the Academy of Sciences his invention of an iron bridge, and with its favorable verdict h