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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

                                 ~The Response of History to the Revelation~

                                                         Appendix
                   pleasure of the contracting parties. Divorce


               became  general,  and  the  corruption  of


               manners  reached  a  height  never  before


               known  in  France.  One  half  of  the  whole


               number of births in Paris was illegitimate. See


               Thiers’s  French  Revolution,  Vol.  II,  p.  380.



               Free-loveism  is  an  integral  part  of  the


               spiritualistic  movement  of  our  day,  not  so


               openly  advocated  as  formerly,  but  none  the


               less cherished and practiced as a part of the


               boasted “freedom” to which the human race is


               attaining.



               5. The Commune. — This word is derived from


               a small territorial district in France governed


               by  an  officer  called  a  mayor.  It  has  come  to


               have a much more extensive application at the


               present time; but the origin of the word is not


               so important as the principles which it is taken
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