The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters, by Daniel Defoe

<p>The brilliant wit and cutting satire of Defoe made for him friends and enemies --- but mostly enemies. So piercing and two-edged was "The Shortest-Way with Dissenters" that he was fined, imprisoned and pilloried. (Volume 27, Harvard Classics)</p> <p>"The Shortest-Way with Dissenters" censored, Feb. 25. 1703.</p> <p> </p>