The volume includes "A Peaceable and Friendly Address to the Nonconformists written upon their desiring an Act of Toleration without the Sacramental Test," a possibly unpublished poem by Edmund Waller (1606-87) and works by Rochester, Dryden, Roscommon, Congreve, Sidney Godolphin, Addison and others.
"Policies should not unjustly exclude materials and resources even if they are offensive to the librarian or the user," says the Web site of the American Library Association, which adds, "Toleration is meaningless without tolerance for what some may consider detestable".
Without toleration and respect for the faiths of others, including the views of those who reject religious faith completely, we will continue to make war on our fellow human beings based on the self-serving provincialism of these pastors and their ilk across the religious spectrum.
Mill was an enemy of religious bigotry and superstition, and a friend of toleration and free thought, without overdoing either.
It is, of course, highly unlikely that the small EU countries restricting refugee access would have engaged in such momentous action without at least the tacit toleration of Germany.
If the King were to die soon, then they would surely succeed and it might well be the case that toleration would be achieved for Protestant dissenters without empowering Roman Catholics in the way James was doing.
One reaction against sectarianism within the anarchist milieu was "anarchism without adjectives", a call for toleration first adopted by Fernando Tarrida del Mármol in 1889 in response to the "bitter debates" of anarchist theory at the time.
The Maryland Toleration Act was an act of tolerance, allowing specific religious groups to practice their religion without being punished, but retaining the ability to revoke that right at any time.
But he also notes that Copernicus published an early sketch of his theory in 1510, without problems, supporting the view that toleration for heterodox views has waxed and waned over the centuries and did not simply weaken during the 17th.
He also claims John Locke as a champion of secular thinking without mentioning the well-known fact that, in his Letter Concerning Toleration, Locke argued that "those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of a God" since "promises, covenants, and oaths… can have no hold upon an atheist".
Yet can religious faith, with its many political and social consequences, be neatly ring-fenced in this way?Religious toleration rightly requires that you must let your neighbour practise his religion without fear of persecution or reprisal.
