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fact, as there is no record of any attempt to alter the week 

 having ever failed, the allegation of impracticability is so far 

 proved to be utterly baseless. The probability is that there 

 would be no difficulty whatever. 



I think the perfect practicability, as well as the many and 

 manifest advantages of this scheme, would be apparent on 

 the printing of the first almanac in conformity with it. But 

 the greatest of its benefits conld not possibly be appreciated 

 until after it should have been carried into practical 

 execution. I mean the great relief to those who really 

 labour hardest and who cannot now secure opportunities 

 for self-improvement. 



Doubtless some people can congratulate themselves upon 

 having rest and leisure enough. Some, there is shrewd reason 

 to suspect, have too much of both. My proposal accom- 

 modates even them, by reducing their superfluous leisure by 

 one-seventieth. But it is not made expressly in then- interest. 

 I make it in the interest of those who, by the force of cir- 

 cumstances, have too little ; who not only labour hard on five 

 days and a half in every week, but cannot secure time for 

 self-improvement on the other half of the Saturday which 

 their more fortunate neighbours have and do not appreciate, 

 and which they are never likely also to get, unless it be 

 guaranteed to them by making it as inviolable as Sunday 

 itself. 



1 append a table showing the names of the days of the 

 week in ten different languages, and three diagrams from 

 Piazzi Smyth's Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid, 

 giving sufficient proofs of the science displayed in the 

 construction of that ancient monument. 



NAMES OF 



THE DAYS OF THE WEEK IN 



English. 



French. 



Latin. 



Italian. 



Spanish. 



Portuguese. 



Sunday 



Dimanche 



Dies Solis 



Domeniea 



Domingo 



Domingo 



Monday 



Lundi 



Dies Luna3 



Lunedi 



Leones 



Secunda feira 



Tuesday 



Mardi 



Dies Martis 



Martedi 



Martes 



Terza feira 



Wednesday 



Mercredi 



Dies Mercurii 



Mercoledi 



Miercoles 



Quarta feira 



Thursday 



Jeudi 



Dies Jovis 



Giovedi 



Jueves 



Quinta feira 



Friday 



Vendredi 



Dies Veneris 



Venerdi 



Viernes 



Sexta feira 



Saturday 



Samedi 



Dies Saturni 



Sabbato 



Sabado 



Sabbado 



