To the indolent every day is a holiday, or a day of rest. Erasmus has taken occasion, in the explication of this sentence, to shew the mischiefs incurred by the increasing number of festivals or holidays, enjoined by the church. They were intended, he observes, as days of necessary relaxation for the labouring poor, but were too frequently passed by them in the grossest debauchery. The abolishing the greater part of these holidays, may be esteemed, as not the smallest of the many advantages produced to this country by the Reformation.
Fuente: Erasmo, 1512.
