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What in fact emerges from the history of religious persecution is the lesson that the unity made by the suppression of Nonconformity is the unity of stagnation.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski reflects on the consequences of religious persecution, suggesting that enforced unity leads to stagnation.
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