Opening with a parable of villagers in the Valley of Ignorance, van Loon traces how human societies have punished those who think differently. He moves from the Greeks and the early Church through the persecution of heretics and the Inquisition to the humanists and reformers who argued, often at great cost, for the right to doubt.
A warm, witty popular history from the author of The Story of Mankind, still timely in its plea. Download the free EPUB.