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...-Protestant heterodoxy as for an extravagant carnal imagination, through to their renun­ ciation ofpolygamy at century's end and, with this, the attainment ofstate­ hood for Utah. (The Book ofMormon appears in 1830; Smith is assassinated in 1844. Mormon polygamy is publicly avowed in 185 2 ; it is renounced...

... representations. Their objective was to minimize, to the point ofexclusion, the effects ofwill, intention, and desire in order that they might produce facts sufficiently objective to contribute to knowledge in the public sphere. In the 171 The Lure ofReality process, psychical research ignored the particular...

..., civilization was always on the verge of disintegrating.Democracy itself, once something to be feared, was becoming an object of desire, manifest in the expansion of universal white male suffrage, and later, in claims by women and the enslaved for liberty and full citizenship.Sovereignty was becoming...