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Nevertheless there are tribes, standing almost at the bottom of the scale, which are strictly monogamous. An intelligent Kandyan chief, of course a polygamist, "was perfectly scandalised at the utter barbarism of living with only one wife, and never parting until separated by death." It was, he said, "just like the Wanderoo monkeys."
Among other shopkeepers in the High Street there was Chuffles, the grocer, a small, hairy, silently intent polygamist, who was given rough music by the youth of the neighbourhood because of a scandal about his wife's sister, and who was nevertheless totally uninteresting, and Tonks, the second grocer, an old man with an older, very enfeebled wife, both submerged by piety.
You're the kind of man I'd like to have in my official family." President, I'd count it the greatest honor of my life to have a commission from you to any office. I'd hand that commission down to my children as the most precious heritage. But I love you too much, Mr. President, to put you in any such hole. I'm a polygamist. It would injure you before the whole country." Are you a polygamist?
He is a polygamist a perfect Turco and keeps a harem of beautiful ninas, who pass under the name of `spiritual wives. It was only after the young Americana had got far out upon the plains indeed, to the Big Timbers, where she escaped from him that she found out the terrible fate for which her false husband had designed her.
This Church leader, himself a new polygamist, answered miserably: "The Church will not let itself be put in such a light before the country. That would be to admit that it has been responsible all the time." I asked: "Has the Church not been responsible?" He replied equivocating : "Well, not the Church. The Church has never taken a vote on it."
I have given three reasons for the prosperity of the notion that man is a natural polygamist, bent eternally upon fresh dives into Lake of Brimstone No. 7. To these another should be added: the thirst for martyrdom which shows itself in so many women, particularly under the higher forms of civilization.
Only a few weeks ago I stated that the Bible was not inspired; that Moses was mistaken, that the "flood" was a foolish myth; that the Tower of Babel existed only in credulity; that God did not create the universe from nothing, that He did not start the first woman with a rib; that He never upheld slavery; that He was not a polygamist; that He did not kill people for making hair-oil, that He did not order His Generals to kill the dimpled babes; that He did not allow the roses of love and the violets of modesty to be trodden under the brutal feet of lust; that the Hebrew language was written without vowels; that the Bible was composed of many books written by unknown men; that all translations differed from each other, and that this book had filled the world with agony and crime.
POLITICS is one of those sciences by which an entrance is made into things rational, which are the ground of rational wisdom, 163. POLYGAMICAL love is the love of the external, or natural man, 345. In this love there is neither chastity, purity, nor sanctify, 346. POLYGAMIST, no, so long as he remain such, is capable of being made spiritual, 347.
I accepted Roberts' nomination as proof that this question must be settled anew at Washington; and I contented myself with predicting, throughout the campaign, that the House of Representatives would determine whether it would admit a polygamist and a member of the hierarchy as a lawmaker, and would so forever dispose of these ecclesiastical candidacies of which Utah refused to dispose for itself.
The male widow-bird, remarkable for his caudal plumes, certainly seems to be a polygamist. 'The Ibis, vol. iii. 1861, p. 133, on the Progne Widow-bird. See also on the Vidua axillaris, ibid. vol. ii. 1860, p. 211. On the polygamy of the Capercailzie and Great Bustard, see L. Lloyd, 'Game Birds of Sweden, 1867, pp. 19, and 182.
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