Jahveh, while denouncing intermarriage with women of foreign races, never says a word against either polygamy or concubinage.
Indeed, both polygamy and concubinage were practised by those Hebrew saints who were most distinguished by their piety, faith, and communion with Jahveh.
The Mormons always defended their plurality of wives from the divine book, and polygamy has been defended by various Christian ministers, from the Lutheran divine, Joannes Lyser, author of Discoursus Politicus de Polygamia, and the Rev.
Yet if, as is probable, the story came from abroad, this trait may have come with it, and only implies polygamy in the original home of the tale.
On the "survival" method of investigation this would possibly be used as evidence for polygamy in the Highlands.
Take, for instance, the calm assumption of polygamy in "Gold-tree and Silver-tree.
He will arouse the warmest expressions of opinion that polygamy is sinful, absurd, and unworkable, and may point in vain to such countries as China, where it apparently works with no more trouble than occurs with our system.
Reasons will be showered on him, but scarcely anyone will admit that he objects to polygamy because he has been taught to regard monogamy as the only proper state of marriage.
In all tropical countries polygamy is the prevailing evil: this is the greatest obstacle to Christianity.
The absence of real love engendered by a plurality of wives, is an absolute bar to progress; and so long as polygamy exists, an extension of civilization is impossible.
Polygamy is of course allowed, as in all other hot climates and savage countries; but when a man becomes too old to pay sufficient attention to his numerous young wives, the eldest son takes the place of his father and becomes his substitute.
Polygamy is, of course, the general custom; the number of a man's wives depending entirely upon his wealth, precisely as would the number of his horses in England.
Where polygamy is in force, women should be too dear to kill; the price of a girl being from five to ten cows, her death is equal to the actual loss of that number.
But as an institution polygamy should be banished from the land.
Neither polygamy nor any other violation of existing statutes will be permitted within the territory of the United States.
That polygamy should exist in a free, enlightened, and Christian country, without the power to punish so flagrant a crime against decency and morality, seems preposterous.
Drive out licensed immorality, such as polygamy and the importation of women for illegitimate purposes.
Just as murder for the scientist is a thirst for absolute destruction, just as theft for the scientist is a hunger for monotonous acquisition, so polygamy for the scientist is an extreme development of the instinct for variety.
Our own world-scorning Winterbottom has even dared to say, `For a certain rare and fine physical type polygamy is but the realization of the variety of females, as comradeship is the realization of the variety of males.
Chapter IV The Wild Weddings; or, the Polygamy Charge "A modern man," said Dr.
Jeroboam had not stained his career with crimes like David; nor had he sunk, as Solomon had done, into polygamy and idolatry.
Polygamy produces results worse than all the others upon the children born in such families.
The polygamy of Solomon sprang naturally from the false position which he had created for himself.
But monogamy was thought unsuitable to the new grandeur of a despot, and under the curse of polygamy the joy of love, the peace of home, are inevitably blighted.
In all eras sisters might marry the same man, and polygamy was common.
The whole of civilian Moslem architecture from Persia to Morocco is based on four unchanging conditions: a hot climate, slavery, polygamy and the segregation of women.
For where slavery and polygamyexist every house-master is necessarily a god, and the house he inhabits a shrine built about his divinity.
Had the law which was enacted in 1862 then been rigidly put in force, and, if necessary, supplemented by other legislation to make it effective, Mormon polygamy might ere this have come to an end.
In dealing with Mormonism as a system, it must ever be borne in mind that polygamy does not form a part of the organic structure of Mormon society.
They are taught to believe that polygamy is a divine institution; they are taught that it is their duty to make a self-sacrifice--to bear the cross in order to receive the crown.
The assertion is often made that it is an exotic--an importation from the Old World, and especially that the pollutions of polygamy may justly be charged to the English, Swedes, and Danes.
Even now, with only a small number of Gentiles in Utah, the Mormon leaders dare not command their followers to murder and assassinate as once they did; and polygamy would be more effectually overcome in that way than in any other.
Polygamy was not promulgated until twenty-two years after, although Joseph Smith, it is alleged, received a revelation on the subject nine years before its formal declaration to the whole Mormon race.
We do not mean to assert that the laws against polygamy should be stricken from our statute-books.
The proper thing to do in order to completely overthrow that idea among the Mormons is to pass the proposed Polygamy Amendment to the Constitution.
Polygamy is not taught by the Mormon missionaries, and is not practised outside of Utah, and is practised there only by a small minority of the people.
Having thus endeavored to answer the question, Why was polygamy promulgated?
The rape of women was an easy remedy where women ran short, as, according to the legend, happened to the early Romans; or where polygamy was the custom, as everywhere in the Orient.
Which is perfectly correct, and also explainable, seeing that the Bible appeared at a time when polygamy extended far and wide among the peoples of the Orient and the Occident.
Others, again, who admit the unnaturalness of celibacy, conclude from the fact that women are more numerous than men in most countries of civilization, that polygamy should be allowed.
All men live in polygamy and all women in polyandry.
Even in the Orient, where polygamy exists for thousands of years by law and custom, comparatively few men have more than one wife.
People were not then living in the ninth or twelfth century, when polygamy was tolerated without shocking society.
Before that, he had written to Henry VIII "every Prince has the right to introduce polygamy in his domains.
But the double marriage of the Duke made such a great and unpleasant sensation, that, in 1541, he circulated a treatise in which polygamy is defended as no transgression against Holy Writ.
His brother, however, Panso Aquitimo, supported by the nobles and almost the whole nation, raised the standard of revolt, in support of polygamy and paganism.
With mankind, polygamy has also been supposed to lead to the birth of a greater proportion of female infants; but Dr.
Sexual characters, secondary; relations of polygamy to; transmitted through both sexes; gradation of, in birds.
On thepolygamy of the Capercailzie and Great Bustard, see L.
Hence it appears that amongst birds there often exists a close relation between polygamy and the development of strongly-marked sexual differences.
Secondary sexual characters; relations ofpolygamy to; transmitted through both sexes; gradation of, in birds.
I have been assured by Mr. Jenner Weir and by others, that it is somewhat common for three starlings to frequent the same nest; but whether this is a case of polygamy or polyandry has not been ascertained.
In this country and among the Mormons the doctrine of polygamy is not that on which much stress is laid.
The Mormons speak of us as Gentiles, yet in reality they take our creed and add to it polygamy and communism.
Man being of the race of God becomes eligible for a celestial throne: his household of wives and children being his kingdom, not on earth only, but in heaven, polygamy is thus his highest duty, and most glorious privilege.
One of them was already urged by Morgan, who examined it under the heading of polygamy and polyandry, which together might obviously lead to the same results as the Yahi usages.
The Hopi were always strict monogamists, while among the Navajo polygamy was permissible.
While in other parts of the Empire polygamy prevails for those who can afford it, in Tibet polyandry crops up.
The total abolition of polygamy might be premature; but that is to be kept in view.
May we not hope that in dealing with polygamy and domestic slavery, the action of China will be such as to lift her out of the class of Turkey and Morocco into full companionship with the most enlightened nations of Europe and America.
We beg your pardon, we know enough about Asia; but what of America--does polygamy flourish there?
Drop the polygamy plank in the platform, but on the other hand deal lightly with certain forms of excess.
And the Bengali woman has been accustomed to polygamy for a few hundred years.
The minute that all the domestic details of polygamy are discussed in the mouths of the people, that institution is ready to fall.
Bigamy and polygamy confront us in the lives of some worthies.
The history of Old Testament polygamy is so sorrowful that the Hebrew people have reacted from it into a stanch defense for the monogamic home.
When Jesus came to give his message contemporaneous polygamy had all but ceased in Palestine.
The exemplars of bigamy and polygamy were mainly those whose position enabled them to flaunt the public sentiment of their day.
In that intimate communion with God that found him in the garden in the cool of the day, bigamy and polygamy are not represented as being at home.
In 1896, polygamy having been prohibited by Congress, Utah was admitted to the Union.
More than anything else, their teaching and their practice ofpolygamy have brought them into collision with "Gentiles" and with the United States Government.
One natural result of polygamy is, not only to take away from the beauty and dignity of the marriage relation, but also to lessen the amount of ceremony with which the marriage is celebrated.
Polygamy and divorce Polygamy is permitted but rarely practised, a second wife being only taken if the first be childless or of bad character, or destitute of attractions.
Polygamy is permitted and was formerly common among the chiefs.
Polygamy widow-marriage and divorce A girl who becomes pregnant by a man of the caste before marriage is wedded to him by the rite used for widows.
Polygamy is permitted, but people will not give their daughter to a married man if they can find a bachelor husband for her.
Polygamy is usual with those who can afford to pay for several wives, as a wife's labour is more efficient and she is a more profitable investment than a hired servant.
It's a much gentler solution than the polygamyscheme that Mr. Saunders proposes; I will say that for it.
We are living on an island where polygamy is practised and tolerated.
He had ridiculed the polygamy scheme, but the divorce proposition might be managed.
Polygamy is quite legal in the United States, and he is an American citizen.
Were the agitation successful, would not polygamy still continue to exist, with the single difference that the later wives would be illegitimate ones?
To agitate, therefore, against polygamy among primitive peoples, is to undermine the whole structure of their society.
Where the population lives in bamboo huts, and society is not so organised that a woman can earn her own living, there is no room for the unmarried woman, and if all women are to be married, polygamy is a necessary condition.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "polygamy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bigamy; monogamy; polyandry; polygamy
