The middle classes are mostly ignorant of the same.

Those, who are well informed on the subject, never once think, when they mention the months and days, on the reason of the rise of their names.

Indeed the almost hourly use of those names secures the oblivion of their origin.

Who, when he speaks of Wednesday and Thursday, thinks that these were the days sacred to Woden and Thor?
but there can be no idolatry, where there is no intention to idolize." "Great weakness, it is said again, is manifested by the Quakers, in quarrelling with a few words in the language, and in living at peace with others, which are equally objectionable.

Every reason, it is said, must be a weak one, which is not universal.