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English
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The Birth of Mormonism
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Boston and Toronto
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Gorham Press and Copp Clark Co.
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Very negative approach. P. 58, 'Apply to Joseph Smith, Jr., whatever moral measurement you please: believe him to be, as I do, a deliberate imposter, a charlatan of the first rank, not self-deceived at least at first, though deceiving others, we must conced to him great ability.' Looks at church as gigantic fraud. Author's purpose in writing stated in preface: 'It is sent forth with the hope that it will help to arouse the American people to endeavor more energentically to remove this moral menace to and blot upon our country.'