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Ingersoll says, “God taught polygamy. I denounce it as the infamy of infamies.”

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God did not teach polygamy. He permitted it because of men’s weakness and frailty without the helps of Christianity, and because it was not opposed to the primary end of the natural law. Ingersoll may constitute himself the supreme dictator of moral law, and give his irrevocable decisions. But the fact remains that his deliberate distortions of the truth are a far more guilty thing than the frailty of men, owing to their bodily passions.

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