Maurice Cranston, in Quud-rant (Mar. 1991), 46 George St., Fitzroy, Victoria, 3065, Austra-

Toleration lia.

Voltaire (1 694- 1778), battling religious ex- tremism in France but lacking any influ- ence on government or politicians, sought to persuade his countrymen to exercise more personal tolerance. English philoso- pher John Locke (1 632-1704), contrast, championed toleration as public policy- but thought it had limits. Locke's biogra- pher, Maurice Cranston, believes that both men's views ar...