Quote#Nature
We deny most emphatically the assertion that polygamy is either…
Quote byJohn Harvey Kellogg · 1852–1943
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Plain Facts For Old and Young, p.147.
English (original)
We deny most emphatically the assertion that polygamy is either taught or approved by the Bible. It was tolerated in a people who had long been in the darkness of Egyptian bondage, but never approved. Indeed, the inspired writers have evidently taken pains to give numerous examples of the evils growing out of that violation of the laws of god and Nature.
— John Harvey Kellogg
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