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Front Letters Concerning Toleration
Back The first of John Locke's letters
1689
Locke was a powerful advocate of free Enquiry
He favoured religious liberty for all except atheists and Catholics and a National church that made possible the Freedom of individual opinion which was every man's right
Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke was originally published in 1689. Its initial publication was in Latin, though it was immediately translated into other languages. Locke's work appeared amidst a fear that Catholicism might be taking over England, and responds to the problem of religion and government by proposing religious toleration as the answer. This "letter" is addressed to an anonymous "Honored Sir": this was actually Locke's close friend Philipp van Limborch, who published it without Locke's knowledge.[1]

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