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The author, the Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes, 76, has been pegging away steadily at the subject for the last 13 years. As secretary of Yale University (1899-1921) and canon of the Episcopal cathedral in Washington, D.C. (1924-39), Dr. Stokes has written and compiled several other volumes of scholarship...
Subversive Toleration. Dr. Stokes credits the first experiment in religious freedom to India's Buddhist King Asoka in the 3rd Century B.C. But liberal King Asoka started no popular trend. Even Plato, himself a nonconformist, recommended five years in jail for dissenters from the state religion. The persecuted Christians...
The seeds of religious liberty were sown by the leaders of the Reformation, says Historian Stokes, though he credits neither Luther nor Calvin with any inclination to practice it themselves. It was rather the radical fringe of Protestantism-the Anabaptists, Mennonites and Quakers-whose protests against ecclesiastical institutionalism and state...
Both Police Chief John R. King and Crime Prevention chief Captain Thomas J. Stokes yesterday expressed extreme satisfaction with the disposition of the case. Stokes termed the suspended sentence preferable to committal to prison, since it remains hanging over Colucci's head for a year and can be put into...
Chief King praised the work of Captain Stokes' Crime Prevention Bureau in handling this case, and denied statements attributed to him in the Boston press that a decoy had been used in the raid.