“If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkeness and gluttony,
that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden in it somewhere. But when Bernard Shaw
says that Christmas Day is only a conspiracy kept up by Poulterers and wine merchants
from strictly business motives, then he says something which is not so much false as
startling and arrestingly foolish. He might as well say that the two sexes were invented by
jewellers who wanted to sell wedding rings.”