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ments wMch he makes in favor of polygamy are chiefly 

 the following: 



1. That it is approved by the Bible. 



2. That a robust man requires more than one 

 woman to satisfy his sexual demands. 



3. That there are more women than men ; and since 

 every woman has a right to have a husband, the only 

 way all can be supplied is to allow several women, two 

 or more, according to the capacity of the man, or as 

 they can agree, to form a marriage partnership with 

 one man. 



4. That the great men of all ages have been polyga- 

 mists in fact, if not by open profession. 



5. That monogamy is a relic of the paganism of the 

 ancient Greeks and Romans, with whom it originated. 



6. That polygamy is the only proper and etfective 

 cure for the ''social evil," and all its attendant vices 

 and dire diseases. 



Arguments of Polygamists Answered.— As the 

 work referred to has had quite a circulation, bearing 

 the imprint of a well-known Boston publisher, and has 

 not received any answer that we are aware of, we deem 

 it worth while to give these arguments at least a pass- 

 ing notice. We will consider them in the order in 

 which they are stated above. 



1. We deny most emphatically the assertion that 

 polygamy is either taught or approved by the Bible. 

 It was tolerated in a people who had long been in the 

 darkness of Egyptian bondage, but never approved. 

 Indeed, the inspired writers have evidently taken 

 pains to give numerous examples of the evils growing 

 out of that violation of the laws of God and nature. 

 Mormon missionaries are spreading their deceptions 

 everywhere with such zeal that we deem it not inap- 



