It won't do. But they say God couldn't do away with slavery suddenly, nor with polygamy all at once--that He had to do it gradually--that if He had told this man you mustn't have slaves, and one man that he must have one wife, and one wife that she must have one husband, He would have lost the control over them notwithstanding all the miraculous power. Is it not wonderful that when they did all these miracles nobody paid any attention to them? Isn't it wonderful that, in Egypt, when they performed these wonders--when the waters were turned into blood, when the people were smitten with disease and covered with the horrible animals--isn't it wonderful that it had no influence on them? Do you know why all these miracles didn't affect the Egyptians? They were there at the time. Isn't it wonderful, too, that the Jews who had been brought from bondage--had followed a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night--who had been miraculously fed, and for whose benefit water had leaked from the rocks and followed them up and down hill through all their journeying--isn't it wonderful, when they had seen the earth open and their companions swallowed, when they had seen God Himself write in robes of flames from Sinai's crags, when they had seen Him talking face to face with Moses--isn't it a little wonderful that He had no more influence over them? They were there at the time. And that is the reason they didn't mind it--they were there. And yet, with all these miracles, this God could not prevent polygamy and slavery. Was there no room on the two tables of stone to put two more commandments? Better have written them on the back, then. Better have left the others all off and put these two on. Man shall not enslave his brother, (you shall not live on unpaid labor), and the one man shall have the one wife. If these two had been written and the other ten left off, it would have been a thousand times better for this world.