Show notes concerning marriage in the earliest history of egypt years 13 C menes bienes first king icing of egypt made laws respecting respects ng marriage dlen dien men alen then in that country had llad concubine and for thousands of years year after satter norton says harems hares always formed a portion of the pe persian ra lan ian and turkish households at a time t me when those nations were all powerful from the time of fu fuhl euhl hf bi 2650 goa 0 years B 0 polygamy has rqn been practiced practised in china under his moses laws poly gamy prevailed to a greater extent than in all ori orf oriental asia tha the number of wives was not limited by moses broses but the rulings of the rabbis sui sut subsequently fixed it at four after the example of the tile patriarch jacob when the people of judea became subject to roman noman law a woman was allowed a dow dowry downy ry and a wife without a dowry was considered only a concubine 11 foote poola nichols says say the description olf f patriae patriarchal chai chal life in the book of genesis would apply with little niter alter alteration a to the customs of most in A oriental tat tai cotin countries tries gide glde says polygamy was more largely permitted in judea than in all eastern asia not only was a man germit permitted tiD to have many wives concubines ce even ven after the jews became the romans polygamy among them to W a considerable extent continued bierod the tho great if I 1 remember rightly is said to have had seven wives those who had nned fled to europe E drope after their dispersion by titus A D 71 held tenaciously to tor thein their customs including polygamy as long as ag they could according to Malmo maimo a distinguished rabbi the jews ot of E europe drope had a plurality of wives S a as late as the thirteenth century foote at athens 1550 B C al loweda allowed a man mail one wife a and nd one concubine afterward in greece concubinage died out or was supplanted by the courtesans courte sans being the most intellectual cultivated accomplished and publicly hoil hori honored ored women in the country when greece became a roman boman province about one hundred tind and fifty years before christ their sy tem term of marriage like that of til the romans became what might bo be called a loose form of monogamy 0 less monog amie amic than that tha t of the the first romans ami anti jess and 0 omni lini than that of the grecians Grec gree ians lans atthe the time of pericles foote the empire of persia was awas founded by cyrus about fie favo ll 11 hundred adred and sixty years benore before cil christy rist and in that tha t country fram the first polygamy has been sustained by law religion and rustom custom tile the founder of df the tho religion of the tiie persians lauy centuries benore before the empire jay jax ay 1200 B E C allowed polygamy among his followers x the neta abrew Anic rican cyclopedia says pays polygamy has existed from time immemorial especially among the nations of the the E east ast it pie vaile d before the floodway flood was common among tile the patriarchs patni patri aichs and vas taa was tolerated bythe by the laws lawr of mo moses es e there are no positive injunctions in lil the bible against the practice in the east the custom has bp been almost universal being sanctioned by all ali religions lobs ious including that of mohammed which allows tv a man to have four wives A niong tx the greeks at least of later ti time mes MOs pys py gamy was never in the homer i c age it seems to have prevailed to some extent in republican rome it was not known but during the tile existence of the e empire m pire the prevalence of divorce g gave ave rise kcf a state of thins thin things s almost analogous with it itt it prevailed among the barbarous nations of antiquity ty with the exception of the germans who tacitus says almost alono aiono among the barbarians are content with a single vire wire norton says Per persian persian sian monarchs never had less than four hundred sand concubines M the ancient parthiana Part hians and scy practiced polygamy As with the larger and more powerful ancient nations so with tile the multitudes of smaller nations polygamy was uras almost universal polygamy is ls a part of thedro rhe the lub amb hammeran liam ham religion which haga baga basa a hundred and forty million of follows ers ers era and is rapidly spreading now in in the orient lecky says that in the tenth a tax called culla culia which was ln fact a licence to clergymen to keep concubines was luring several beveral centuries systematically s levied by princes the chinaman is allowed as many wives as he can s support norton says polyta polygamy my is the custom in china picard ays says japanese princes and noblemen are permitted to have llave a number of wives lin japan if a man finds he cannot n ot have children childre ii by his first wine wire he invariably nd marries arrles or purchase purchases S another 11 foote polygamy also prevails in burmah and hindostan hindustan Hind ant ani and throughout africa boote F boote says polygamy is an institution JQ ution which has remained unchanged throughout the whole East ast through all changes of time races re religion ligion and climate those thoe even who have hake given to asia the purest laws zor and moses were obil obliged R ed to make mawe their rigid doctrine conform with this custom that which proves that it exists in all climates and all ali allones mones is that it is found among the indians of the two americas the tartars of the two dussias Rus bus sias and Kamsch as well as in the heat of the tropics american wives with occasional exceptions are faithful to their husbands and many husbands particularly in the rural districts are faithful in return bu but nut t the fact tha thai tover over one hund hundred red thousand public prostitutes andrit least leas t an ail equal number of private mistresses distresses mi stresses are supported in the united states and many of them in extravagance and splendor leads us vis to the irresistible sis tible tibie conclusion that while monogamy is the tile law in state and society polygamy adultery in thee theo instances is the custom of not mot a small proportion of the male proportion it etisa Is a proverbial remark in new york that the ab abandoned females of this city are inal lual maintained chiefly by the patronage of married hied nied men visiting the metropolis there abere is an educated prejudice against ains alus st polygamy especially which sich nich las has considerable root in truth and a great deal in bigotry the newspaper bress cress press catering to this prejudice visits morman polygamy oly with the most sweeping denunciation nuncia tion to my personal kaow ledge fedgo many of these articles are written by men who personally person ll 11 1 y hold lloil to different opinions t than a n those choso which they p publish in the it literary world writing ls is regarded as a business from which tu to acquire a subsistence ir if not wealth and 1 1 you cannot always judge of the personal proclivities of the tho th ineda diews paper writer by his editorials it pays at this juncture to denounce without qualification Mormon polygamy gain barn and arld for this reason mainly it is lone ione done norton says 1 pois Poly polygamy garoy seems not to have been entirely eradicated among the christians ozithe afi the sixth century as we find it then enacted in the tile canovas of one of its councils that if any one is married to many wives Vives he hhall shall do penance even the clergy theme hies in this period I 1 pi practised practiced bigamy as we find it ordained ordain pd at another council held at Narbon narbonne Nar bonne honne nt that such clergymen as a were biga mists should only and dea deacons cong and should nob not be allowed to marry and consecrate on secrate roin in the eighth century charlemagne had two wives gebert Bi Si and Chil chii feric peric had also a plurality according to gregory of tours but we even find an instance of bigamy and polygamy as late as the six hix sixteenth century philip a german prince of hesse carsel carpel p obtained permission from luther and a synod pod of six gix reformers to marry a second wife durig during the life ilfe of his first one and je lip accordingly did so in id this remar k able case luther exercised an authority which even the most darino daring of the popes in the plenitude of power had never ventured to attempt the itulid celebrated john of leyden a leader of the anabaptists in munster germany in 1533 announced nouli ced his right to marry as many wives as he chose follo following whig the custom or of the kings rings of israel and aud put it in practice so fr far as to marry seventeen sev bev enteen 1 qt it was practiced practised among the ancient 1 n c ae nt mexicans and peruvians I 1 as well as the more barbarous tribes in botu both north and south america Monte montezuma zurna the emperor of mexico at the time of the spanish invasion had three thousand women e n the tho incas ineas in the the tho twelfth century married only their own sisters but were allowed a great number of concubines the peruvians lefore before the camu coming of the incas are said to mohave have had h gd their women jn in cain com mon with no recognized charria marriage ge i relation but subsequently adopted polygamy the brazilians Brazi lians practised practiced poly ramy gamy pa ny in ancient times and I 1 believe now do in portions of their empire in nicaragua polygamy was formerly allowed and adulterers were simply divorced in cara bahl bahi had as many wives as they wished the other inhabitants had bad as many wives as they co could u id support polygamy indeed seems to have obtained among the ancient inhabitants of the whole of central and south america and as a result little adultery or violence was committed the aborigines of north america though generally content with one ono wife sometimes took two or three in conclusion itis stated on good authority that from the creation of the world polygamy has hns been the rule with four fifths of the human race |