polygamy

He knew nothing of Mormonism except the custom of polygamy, which is its foundation.

- Their Contempt of Beards- Ornaments- Armor and Weapons.-Mode of Flattening the Head.- Extent of the Custom.- Religious Belief.- The Two Great Spirits of the Air and of the Fire.- Priests or Medicine Men.- The Rival Idols.- Polygamy a Cause of Greatness- Petty Warfare.- Music, Dancing, Gambling.- Thieving a Virtue.- Keen Traders- Intrusive Habits - Abhorrence of Drunkenness- Anecdote of Comcomly.

No one can appreciate the peace, the holy satisfaction of monogamy till he has passed through the wasting distractions, the unrest of polygamy. Plunged right away into monogamy, man, unexperienced in his good fortune, hankers after polygamy, as the monotheistic Jew hankered after polytheism; and thus the monogamic young man too often meets Aphrodite for the first time, and makes future appointments with her, in the arms of his pure young wife.

Polygamy, which once prevailed among them to a great extent, was now rarely indulged.

The supply of adult women was running short, and polygamy without a female population on which to draw was a barren doctrine indeed.

* At that time polygamy was still practised in Turkey.

Smuggling is not, like polygamy, a hanging offense.

His religious beliefs had become what would at present be called Unitarian, and he did not associate with any of the existing denominations; in private theory he had even come to believe in polygamy. At home he is said to have suffered from the coldness or more active antipathy of his three daughters, which is no great cause for wonder if we must credit the report that he compelled them to read aloud to him in foreign languages of which he had taught them the pronunciation but not the meaning.

A regular system of polygamy exists among the islanders; but of a most extraordinary nature,--a plurality of husbands, instead of wives!

She could have informed you that there was such a word as "polygamy," and being also acquainted with "polysyllable," she had deduced the conclusion that "poly" mean "many"; but she had had no idea that gypsies were not well supplied with groceries, and her thoughts generally were the oddest mixture of clear-eyed acumen and blind dreams.

And must be unless you had polygamy, only the other way round; you understand." He laughed like an idiot, while I made for the door.

A Mormon reads his Bible, and finds polygamy; a Christian Scientist reads his, and finds we have no arms and legs.