This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 edition. Excerpt: ...influence of misunderstanding, and of consequent deception and disunity. In connexion, then, with what has been previously related, I will now speak of the social condition of, and unhappy physical circumstances that surrounded, the youthful family. They dwelt a long period peacefully and harmoniously united ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 edition. Excerpt: ...influence of misunderstanding, and of consequent deception and disunity. In connexion, then, with what has been previously related, I will now speak of the social condition of, and unhappy physical circumstances that surrounded, the youthful family. They dwelt a long period peacefully and harmoniously united one with another, and continued thus so long as they observed the natural language of the principle within, by figures, motions, gesticulations, and configurations of the countenance, which were so real and so truly expressive of the actual thoughts and affections of the mind. But when they discovered their ability to produce vocal sounds, they took advantage of this discovery, and began communicating their thoughts in that manner: for they felt that it was novel, pleasing, and expedient. They soon lost their primitive habit of radiated expressions, and with it the perfect purity of their interior thoughts. Misunderstanding each other's thoughts and intentions from the dissimilarity of sounds that were employed, they became envious, cruel, and deceptive; because sounds were capable of expressing thoughts of altogether a different nature from those that were dwelling in the interior of the individuals conversing. They were unlike the inhabitants discovered upon the planet Mercury: for they, as has been related, despise the externals of thought (which are words), as they dislike the clothing and concealing of truths by false and deceptive expressions. And after the inhabitants became thus socially miserable because of disunity of feeling and disorganization, they wondered as to the cause of this evil. They were not advanced sufficiently in intellectual discernment to discover the actual cause within their midst, and so one who was more...
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