> … what we call "tolerance" … hardly applicable to societies that practiced slavery… Both monotheistic and polytheistic. > … didn't even have writing… Greec

> … what we call "tolerance" … hardly applicable to societies that practiced slavery… Both monotheistic and polytheistic. > … didn't even have writing… Greece. Rome. > When I use the term ["forward"] it mostly just represents the arrow of time, with no further valuation. Except that the term you used was "a big step forward" which certainly suggests more than "the arrow of time".