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Argues that toleration is the first principle of all human rights. Rise of tolerance in Europe; Information on cruelty in the Middle East; Negative view of toleration in Arab-Muslim practice.

Discusses how circumstances of war and irrational violence can actively engender acts of extreme cruelty and compassion among human beings. Examination of tolerance's ascendancy in Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries; Contemporary parallels in Lebanon, Somalia and former Yugoslavia; Effect of Gulf War upon evolution of tolerance; Decline of ideologies obliterating distinctions between revolution and democracy.