Rights of Man

Rights of Man is a mature and systematic work of Thomas Paine's political thought. It refuted Edmund Burke's attack on the French revolution in reflections on the French revolution. This book pointed out the epochal significance of the French revolution, and became one of the guiding works of the enlightenment. "e;It broke through the superstition of the British constitutional monarchy that was prevailing in the western advanced ideology at that time, profoundly criticized this monarchy, and pointed out a new direction of republicanism for the French revolution, which was still groping at that time."e; It was once listed by the British press as one of the "e;ten books that changed the world"e;. This book is as famous as Das Kapital.