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H. G. Wells�s passionate and influential manifesto�never before available in the United States�was first published in England in 1940 in response to World War II. The progressive ideas Wells set out were instrumental in the creation of the UN�s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the European Convention on Human Rights, and the UK�s Human Rights Act. In the face of a global miscarriage of justice, The Rights of Man made a clear statement of mankind�s responsibilities to itself. Seventy-five years later we are again witnessing a humanitarian crisis, with human rights in developed nations under threat and millions of refugees displaced. A new introduction to Wells�s work by award-winning novelist Ali Smith underlines the continuing urgency and relevance of one of the most important humanitarian texts of the twentieth century.