The shortest procedure

The shortest procedure is the short title of the anonymous tract The Shortest Way With The Dissenters by Daniel Defoe , in which he attacked the Anglican Church and its religious intolerance towards the other faiths in disagreement with it. He had in 1703 , became known as his authorship, because of the spread of seditious libel indefinitely into prison . His experience in dealing with the prevailing opinion found their appraisal in the Hymn to the pillory (Hymn to the Pillory), which in turn by Stefan Heym in his novel The diatribe to a settlement with the practices of the GDR - regime was compacted literary.