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Show lC'? oonslderable refutatlve ak!11 lnQOnAltenole8.'· R exhlblte opin ion ,nd in the ment a 19:19 18 (that Levltto ce tabllahlng result the wr1 t r overthrew' Newmg"n· s k 6y of • the writer 1e or o.t this .,nvestlgatlonl r-gu hl1e olymy) 'condemoatlon of th paints" elsen tlal, to hi s ovn m/u11 o:r a ca se 1'\19 , the opinion held, in that, in. terms' of tht .. eaum'Ptlonl and. de.f'1n1 tiona by ,both parties to the .d.ebette, Pratt enforced his point, oommon oS,Mely, that the Sible sano tlonfJ polygamYe, Am bas been .1nd1o.ated, (4) Prattle idea.s about the ." WG;. true .9.8 far am e an be deter- nture of b1bl1tlal l,olygamy allned in the res_arch ides,s nineteenth century on system are "true. ff The Mormone were his the basis of the bib110al PNlot1ce of the con,,1d,ered not U())leVer, Just,lfloa,t1on for ,practio1ng polyg.nmy in the the to as 1no1dtnt lo" th1$ 6tudy. by the wrl tar to have be en functionally (H.d not, t1.(ke root 1n the society of 'to§hl ch the 1d"u t . a On whole. part, nor d'1d $, th.e oontr&\t'y, it rui1ult in good. for the group as the the tlettrmlned resistanoe' 'whioh o Mormons ma,e to laws of diffioUlty bttween prohl'bltlng po11ga,my ""tHit the the rest of them Rnd praotice of plurF.il marr1a,gt! enJo·ln$(l to source nation between The 'faot th,t 'Pratt demonAtrted tM t the lB52 end 1890. tlon the ohief given by Joseph $mith by the revela-, aanQtlon,f,d by the Bibl e seamed was atlffen Mormon re,letanoe upon them to interference with the ' praotioe" It $eems Bible anot1()nF! plau$1bJ.9 that by demonetratlng tha t polyg:trlY Pratt' e apeeohss a,erie s of' event e 1flhleh t:ilmos t federf.ll govArnment of the 1 ed 'tr,) t be set the into mot1on destrun t ton to'rmetl orgn,n1zQtion or the 'by the the Church •. |
