And the last edition of the polygamic nations--Turkey--is passing away.
But we are informed by the reverend Doctor that the law given for the regulation of matters in the polygamic form of marriage bears upon the face of it the condemnation of polygamy.
I have therefore established that Israel was a polygamic nation when God gave them the laws which I have quoted, laws to govern and regulate a people among whom were polygamic and monogamic families.
Here then the rights of the first-born were acknowledged, in bothpolygamic and monogamic families, before the law under consideration was given.
God has given it his own sanction, whether it be the polygamic or the monogamic form.
Neither was the mere foretelling of the future greatness of Solomon an approval of the polygamic character of his birth.
The Lord hearkened to her cry and granted her prayer; and when she received seed from the Lord by her polygamic husband, she exclaimed--"the Lord hath hearkened unto me and hath answered my prayer.
This I deny; and I call upon the gentleman to bring forth one proof from that Bible, from the beginning to the end of it, to prove that murder had anything to do in relation to the polygamic form of marriage of Lamech.
He would not take up isolated instances here and there of a man having one wife, but He would adapt His laws to the whole; to both the polygamic and monogamic forms of marriage throughout all Israel.
Was the Lord to be considered a criminal, and worthy of being tried in a court of justice and sent to prison for thus increasing the polygamic relations of David?
Moreover, it is safe to say that no family in Israel, in its domestic relations, better exemplified the true nature and purpose of the polygamic principle, than the family of Heber C.
Reference has already been made to the fact that, before leaving Nauvoo, Heber, like many of his brethren, had entered upon his career as a polygamic patriarch.
He had lived in the polygamic court of the khalif, whose family had occasionally boasted of more than forty sons and forty daughters.
The nobility were of two orders, the polygamic descendants of the Incas, who were the main support of the state, and the adopted nobles of nations that have been conquered.
The polygamic husband must either suffer from the consequences of excessive indulgence or his wives from poverty of sexual gratification; probably both would be the case.
We have seen that monogamy was coequal with civilization, and that most probably the majority of the males had but one wife, even among polygamic nations.
At the Mass Meeting in the Theatre to protest against the Woman's Anti-Polygamic Association she took an active part in the proceedings.
Even the Saviour, Himself, traces his lineage back topolygamic parents.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "polygamic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
