Rights of Man | work by Paine | Britannica (original) (raw)

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advocacy of reform

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  In United Kingdom: Britain during the French Revolution
  …argued that Thomas Paine’s best-seller, The Rights of Man (1791–92), fostered mass enthusiasm for democratic reform and mass alienation from Britain’s ruling class. Paine attacked the monarchy, aristocracy, and all forms of privilege, and he demanded not only manhood suffrage and peace but also public education, old-age pensions, maternity benefits,…
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discussed in biography

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  In Thomas Paine: In Europe: Rights of Man
  In April 1787 Paine left for Europe to promote his plan to build a single-arch bridge across the wide Schuylkill River near Philadelphia. But in England he was soon diverted from his engineering project. In December 1789 he published anonymously a warning…
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