Tolerance

Author: Hendrik van Loon
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: Toleration is a popular history book that has been a bestseller for nearly a century. The author, Hendrik van Loon, with profound humanistic concern and a spirit advocating freedom of thought, analyzes the arduous journey humanity has undertaken in pursuit of the right to think. It paints a grand and tumultuous history of human intellectual liberation, using van Loon's extremely famous "eye of toleration" to help us rediscover and gain a deeper understanding of the winding development of politics, religion, culture, and society over thousands of years, as well as the long and enduring path of humanity's quest for self-liberation.