The Book of Holidays (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Book of Holidays We Americans are so accustomed to taking our holidays as a matter of course - to treating them merely as rest and play days - that we constantly run the risk of losing sight of their significance. When another holiday is forward, we are not so likely to say, "Let's see, what are we commemorating this time?" as "I wonder if it will be a good day for the golf tournament?" Nevertheless, our holidays are becoming sadly misused if they are degenerating into mere play days. They are, in fact, milestones in our national and religious life, marking the progress of certain ideas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.