Joseph Smith was a voracious book collector.

约瑟夫·史密斯是一个如饥似渴的藏书家。

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At about the same time, Joseph Smith founded a new American religion-and soon met with the wrath of the mainstream Protestant majority.

几乎同时，约瑟夫·史密斯在美国成立一个全新的教派，不久后就与群情愤激的新教主要力量发生冲突。

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Mr Toscano recalls that, when he was a young man about to go on his mission, he mentioned to his bishop (roughly the equivalent of a parish priest) that Joseph Smith was a polygamist.

托斯卡诺回忆说，当天还是个即将踏上传教之路的年轻人时，他对他的主教(大致相当于一个教区牧师)说约瑟·斯密是个多配偶论者。

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In the eighteen twenties, in the state of New York, a man named Joseph Smith started the Mormon religion.

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Joseph Smith was forced to move his people from New York to Ohio and then to Missouri.

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The church split when Joseph Smith said that Mormons could have more than one wife.

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Of course, those followers of Joseph Smith are to be distinguished from the followers of Joseph Smith who headquarter in Salt Lake City.

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Even more striking is the abolitionist Presidential campaign of Joseph Smith in 1844.

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