Excerpt from Uncle Walter, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel That is to say, a pretty considerable majority Of them were substituting occupations which they professed to believe sinful, for the duties which they professed to believe Obligatory, but which they indisputably found disagreeable. Among the more dignified and select classes of society it might indeed seem that very little could be gained by this bold emancipation from ecclesiastical restraint; for a dusty drive round the park seems, at least to the profane vulgar, not many degrees more agreeable than the dreamy imprisonment for longsome hours in a hot church, as prescribed by most Anglican ministers. Nevertheless, the influence Of the park, versus the pulpit, avails to ensure a sufficient number Of lordly sabbath-breakers, to make it abundantly clear to the great unwashed that their rulers were only humbugging them when they enacted Sabbath Observance Bills, and harangued against the wickedness Of all popular Sunday recreations. 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.