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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