The golden plates and the brass plates
Page 5710 He preserved disagreements without requiring that the less powerful speaker be described as confused.
Passage actions
11 A scribe offered to remove the untidy parts, so that future readers would have greater confidence in the result.
Passage actions
12 Mormon replied that confidence purchased by removing the reason to question it was a costly bargain.
Passage actions
13 He left margins.
Passage actions
14 This reduced the space available for his own explanation, which several scribes regarded as an unexpected sacrifice.
Passage actions
15 In one margin he wrote: Ask who is absent from this account.
Passage actions
16 In another: Ask what the writer wished thee to conclude.
Passage actions
17 And in the widest margin he left room for the reader to disagree without first damaging the binding.
Passage actions
MORMON / CHAPTER 2
The golden plates and the brass plates
The color of a record is confused with the quality of its argument; two metals retain two purposes; Moroni receives the unfinished work.
Passage actions
A companion plate for this reading.
Passage actions
1 And I shit you not, a visitor saw the golden plates and announced that the argument upon them must be expensive to contradict.