THE MODERN RIGHTS Or MAN 

 Photogravure from the Painting by Charles Landclle. 



The famous allegorical painting reproduced here, was originally exhibited at 

 the Paris Exposition of 1889. The young man with his newly -formulated 

 "Rights of Man" (Droits de 1'Homme) embodies the spirit of the French Rev- 

 olution of 1789, which proclaimed these "Rights" ignoring the majesty of the 

 L^aw and ignoring also that there can be no rights without duty and self- 

 restraint. France learned to her sorrow after all the turmoil and bloodshed of 

 the Revolution that the whole social system is founded on the rights of the 

 whole community and on the duties and obligations we owe to each other. 



