Excerpt from The Reformation and Simplification of the Calendar In carefully reviewing the proposed system it will be seen that it. Makes a week instead of a day the unit of the calendar, and consequently the unit of civil time. The result is that all the chief divisions of the year have the week as an exact measure, begin with its first day and end with its close. The fact that the month is not an exact measure of the quarter is of no moment, as in business the quarter is seldom named without stating the number of weeks involved. The week being without any other sanction than that of its adaptation to human interests, is very appropriately named the unit of civil time, and should therefore be the chief measure of all the prominent divisions of the year. 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.