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A DOUBTFUL HYPOTHESIS
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Some
sceptics, however, turning this pretended discovery
Bruce to account, have drawn from it what they consider
an incontrovertible argument to prove that religion is
merely a question of geography, and that Christianity
cannot be suitable for all countries and all nations for
marriage being the natural state of all human beings,
a religion that forbids polygamy would in hot countries
reduce more than half of one sex to a state of enforced
But supposing the hypothesis on which this
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