But despite the facts you bring to bear on your argument, that polygamy
leads to more morality in the homes of the land than our present
conditions illustrate, I must disagree with you.
I am opposed to polygamy. Any social arrangement which licenses men to
possess several women, to give full rein to their desires, is a block to
the wheels of progress.
Not until man learns the lesson of self-control, as woman has learned
it, will humanity reach its highest development.
Not until man ceases to place himself on a par with the unreasoning male
animal, when he argues on the subject of the sexual relations, will he
become the master of circumstance he is meant to be.
One man and one woman living sexually true to each other is the ideal
domestic life. Better strive toward that ideal, and fail and strive
again, than to lower it and accept license and self-indulgence as the
standard, under some religious name.
Polyandry and polygamy are both evidences of a crude and half-evolved
humanity.
They belong to a society which has not learned the law of self-control
as a part of its religious creed and the march of progress.
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