CONTENTS

PAGE
Prologue[11]
CHAPTER
I.The Tyranny of Ignorance[17]
II.The Greeks[28]
III.The Beginning of Restraint[68]
IV.The Twilight of the Gods[80]
V.Imprisonment[104]
VI.The Pure of Life[114]
VII.The Inquisition[126]
VIII.The Curious Ones[146]
IX.The War Upon the Printed Word[160]
X.Concerning the Writing of History in General and This Book in Particular[168]
XI.Renaissance[172]
XII.The Reformation[181]
XIII.Erasmus[195]
XIV.Rabelais[212]
XV.New Signboards for Old[223]
XVI.The Anabaptists[246]
XVII.The Sozzini Family[257]
XVIII.Montaigne[269]
XIX.Arminius[275]
XX.Bruno[286]
XXI.Spinoza[292]
XXII.The New Zion[307]
XXIII.The Sun King[321]
XXIV.Frederick the Great[326]
XXV.Voltaire[330]
XXVI.The Encyclopedia[352]
XXVII.The Intolerance of Revolution[361]
XXVIII.Lessing[372]
XXIX.Tom Paine[387]
XXX.The Last Hundred Years[393]

TOLERANCE

TOLERANCE
PROLOGUE

Happily lived Mankind in the peaceful Valley of Ignorance.

To the north, to the south, to the west and to the east stretched the ridges of the Hills Everlasting.