"This day I have been walking through the most splendid part of the city of New York. The buildings are truly great and wonderful to the astonishing of the beholder, and the language of my heart is like this. Can the great God of all the earth maker of all things magnificent and splendid be displeased with man for all these great inventions sought out by them. My answer is no it can not be, seeing these great works are calculated to make men comfortable wise and happy, therefore not for these works can the Lord be displeased."
Joseph Smith to Emma Smith, October 18, 1832
quoted from Cities of the American West
John W. Reps, p. 288
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