Days, months, and years were given to us by nature, but we invented the week for ourselves. There is nothing inevitable about a seven-day cycle, or about any other kind of week; it represents an arbitrary rhythm imposed on our activities, unrelated to anything in the natural order. But where the week exists--and there have been many cultures where it doesn't--it is so deeply embedded in our experience that we hardly ever question its rightness, or think of it as an artificial convention; for most of us it is a matter of 'second nature.'
- ISBN10 0029346800
- ISBN13 9780029346808
- Publish Date 1 June 1985
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Free Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 206
- Language English