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Traité sur la tolérance

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The work opens with an account of the arrest, trial, and execution of an innocent Protestant merchant whose son's suicide was misread as religious murder, then uses the case to examine intolerance in law, religion, and society. It surveys historical and scriptural claims about intolerance among Greeks, Romans, Jews, and Christians, critiques persecutory practices and false legends, considers legal reform and limited exceptions for coercion, compares debates in other cultures, defends universal tolerance and virtue over superstition, and concludes with a plea for legal and moral change culminating in a prayerful appeal and postscript.

Au lecteur