H. G. Wells充满热情和有影响力的宣言——此前从未在美国发布——于1940年**次在英国出版，作为对二战的回应。Wells提出的进步思想在联合国世界人权宣言、欧洲人权公约和英国的人权法案的制定上起了重要作用。面对公正在全球范围内的流产，《人类的权力》明确声明了人类对自身的责任。

七十五年之后，我们再一次目睹了人道主义危机，发达国家的人权受到威胁，数百万难民流离失所。获奖小说家Ali Smith为Wells的著作撰写的新绪论强调了二十世纪最重要的人道主义文本之一的持续紧迫性和意义。

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.