---
title: "Delusions: An Analysis of the Book of Mormon"
description: 1832 pamphlet by Alexander Campbell, a Disciples of Christ minister, reviewing the Book of Mormon and arguing against its claims, reprinted at Boston with prefatory remarks by Joshua V. Himes.
authors:
  - Campbell, Alexander
collections:
  - history
tags:
  - book-of-mormon
  - criticism
  - 19th-century
published: "1832"
publisher: Benjamin H. Greene
publisher_place: Boston
edition: First Boston edition (1832), with prefatory remarks by Joshua V. Himes
language: en
type: pamphlet
reference: 'Alexander Campbell, *Delusions: An Analysis of the Book of Mormon* (Boston: Benjamin H. Greene, 1832), "Title Page."'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/delusionsanalysi01camp
  identifier: delusionsanalysi01camp
  scan: Internet Archive scan of the 1832 Boston printing (Waitt and Dow's Press)
  transcription: OCR text of the 1832 scan, with line-break hyphens joined, running heads removed and obvious scan errors corrected by hand; printed pagination kept as page markers.
curator_note: Campbell's review first appeared in the Millennial Harbinger Extra of February 1831; this is the 1832 Boston reprint with prefatory remarks by Joshua V. Himes.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1832 US publication (Boston, Benjamin H. Greene); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States
  source: https://archive.org/details/delusionsanalysi01camp
  publication_year: 1832
  note: Publication year of the edition used is 1832; the Internet Archive item carries a modern rights notice in its metadata, which does not apply to a text first published in 1832 (owner ruling).
---

# Title Page

DELUSIONS.

AN ANALYSIS OF THE BOOK OF MORMON; WITH AN EXAMINATION OF ITS INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL EVIDENCES, AND A REFUTATION OF ITS PRETENCES TO DIVINE AUTHORITY.

BY ALEXANDER CAMPBELL.

WITH PREFATORY REMARKS, BY JOSHUA V. HIMES.

BOSTON: BENJAMIN H. GREENE. 1832.

WAITT AND DOW'S PRESS.