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personal element ; and the grand chain of ideas 

 suggested must be linked together by living chains 

 as gorgeous as they can be made, yet with as much 

 variety of form as the necessity for movement allows. 

 General consent agrees to group the central subjects 

 in some form of triumphal car. Whether any of 

 these devices have been wholly satisfactory may be 

 doubted. There was a rude success of symbolism 

 in one of the most striking of l one man ' triumphs 

 of the sombre kind the burial of Nelson. The 

 funeral car was a model of the bows of the ' Victory.' 

 But the emblematic or allegorical car will always 

 give the leading ideas of the great pageant. Between 

 these, bands of men, on foot or on horseback, but 

 always uniformly clad, each company or squadron 

 in contrast to the next, are the natural and necessary 

 links. The unity of movement of disciplined men, 

 able to suggest the leading emotion of the moment 

 by their tread and bearing, has set the time of the 

 piece, from the tramp of the legionaries in the 

 triumph, to the slow march of the modern military 

 funeral. But while unity of impression makes the 

 success of a pageant, nothing causes failure sooner 

 than uniformity ; and sameness of movement is as 

 dangerous as repetition of form. A break and 

 variety in both are needed ; and animal movement, 

 as well as animal forms, are essential to the success 



