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knows exactly where the list ends. This is nothing 
uncommon. Though clans and tribes no longer settle 
under their respective chiefs in villages, the families of 
the same name and blood still present a very close re- 
presentation of the clan, system. They have all the 
tribal relationship without any of its feeling. Instead 
of forming a strong body and helping each other, these 
people seemed to detest one another, and to lose no 
opportunity of snatching some little advantage or 
telling some scandalous tale. In fact, this in-and-in 
breeding seems one of the curses of village life, and a 
cause of stagnation and narrowness of mind. This 
marrying and giving in marriage is not singular to well- 
to-do leaders of chapel society, but goes on with equal 
fervour among the lower members. The cottage girls 
and cottage boys marry the instant they get a chance, 
and it is not at all uncommon to find comparatively 
young labourers who have had two wives. There is 
nothing in this to reproach: it is a peculiarity of the 
cast of mind which I am endeavouring to describe—a 
cast of mind perhaps not much marked by sentimen- 
tality. Something in this practice reminds one of the 
Mormons. Certainly the wives are not taken together, : 
but they are sealed as fast as circumstances permit. 
Something in it has a Mormonite aspect to an observer, 
and perhaps the existence of this cast of mind may assist 
in explaining the inexplicable growth of that strange 
religion. Doubtless they would repudiate the suggestion * 
with loud outcries and indignation, for people are always” 
most vigorous in denouncing themselves unconsciously. ' 
These numerous wives (who are quite willing), the marry-— 
ing of sisters, the primitive gatherings at the chapel, so 
like the religious camps of the Far West, the general 
relationship, have a distinct flavour of Salt Lake. Add 
