ABSTRACT
This book is a critique: that means an attack (though scholarly), a polemic (though theoretical), an expose (though intellectual). However, the critique is undertaken in the name of something more positive, in fact a vision: a vision of true tolerance. So the question may arise: why not dwell on the vision, and put aside the critique? There is a simple reason for this. Like a statue of clean and noble line, true tolerance is a very simple thing. It is much too simple, in fact, to require an entire book of explanation and analysis to tell the beholder what he beholds. But the statue is set in a jungle. As jungle overgrew the city of Angkor Wat until it was lost to view, so the statue is burdened with mould and creepers until its line is cluttered, dim, and obscure.
