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In the course of his work he applied himself to many great problems, as for example when he tried to determine the boundaries of painting and of poetry in his *Laocoon*. But the most interesting thing of all is the powerful impetus with which Lessing fought for the idea of tolerance. You need only take his *Nathan the Wise* and you will see at once what a foremost place this idea of tolerance has in Lessing's mind and life. In weaving the fable of the three kings in *Nathan the Wise*, he wants to show how the three main religions have gone astray from their original forms and are none of them really genuine, and how one must go in search of the true form, which has been lost. 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