in with some very general sentiments, and that the 
     jurists’ imaginative fictions met with certain feelings 
     which in the age of the Danses macabres , where all 
     Dignities danced with Death, must have been peculiarly 
     close to the surface. The jurists, as it were, discovered 
     the immortality of the Dignity; but by this very discovery 
     they made the ephemeral nature of the mortal incumbent 
     all the more tangible. We should not forget that the 
     uncanny juxtaposition of a decaying corpse and an 
     immortal Dignity as displayed by the sepulchral 
     monuments, or the sharp dichotomy of the lugubrious 
     funeral train surrounding the corpse and the triumphant 
     float of an effigy-dummy wrapped in regalia, was 
     fostered, after all, in the same ground, came from the 
     same world of thought and sentiment, evolved in the 
     same intellectual climate, in which the juridical tenets