Length10h 19m
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Excerpt: "Carols are still sung in almost numberless churches, lights glow on altars bound and wreathed with spruce and holly, trees are set up in innumerable homes, and mobs of merry children sing and dance around them, stockings take on grotesque shapes and hang gaping with treasures for early marauders on Christmas morning, and hosts of men and women keep the day in their hearts in all peace and piety. The festival, dear to the heart of sixty generations, has survived the commercial uses which it has been compelled to serve; the weariness of buying and selling in the vast bazaar of nations, stocked with all manner of things which stimulate the offerings of friendship; the wide-spread sense of irony which success without happiness breeds; the indifference of feeling and satiety of emotion fostered by great prosperity without that grace of culture which subdues wealth to the finer uses of life. It has survived the cynical spirit that distrusts sentiment and sneers at emotion as weaknesses which have no place in a scientific age and among men and women who know life. It has survived that preoccupation with affairs which leaves little time for feelings, and that resolute determination to make men good which leaves scant room for efforts to make them happy."
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Length10 hrs 19 mins
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Publish dateMar 9, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1INTRODUCTION
8VII CHRISTMAS REVELS
2I SIGNS OF THE SEASON
9VIII WHEN ALL THE WORLD IS KIN
3II HOLIDAY SAINTS AND LORDS
10IX CHRISTMAS STORIES
4III CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS AND BELIEFS
11X NEW YEAR
5IV CHRISTMAS CAROLS
12XI TWELFTH NIGHT
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6V CHRISTMAS DAY
13XII THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT
7VI CHRISTMAS HYMNS
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