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ly collects round him attendants whose propitiatory acts are 

 made definite and fixed by repetition, there arise ceremonial 

 officials. Though, along with the growth of organizations 

 which enforce civil laws and enunciate moral precepts, there 

 has been such a decay of the ceremonial organization as to 

 render it among ourselves inconspicuous ; yet in early stages 

 the body of officials who conduct propitiation of living 

 rulers, supreme and subordinate, homologous with the body 

 of officials who conduct propitiation of dead apotheosized 

 rulers, major and minor, is a considerable element of the so 

 cial structure ; and it dwindles only as fast as the structures, 

 political and ecclesiastical, which exercise controls more 

 definite and detailed, usurp its functions. 



Carrying with us these general conceptions, let us now 

 pass to the several components of ceremonial rule. We 

 will deal with them under the heads Trophies, Mutilations, 

 Presents, Visits, Obeisances, Forms of Address, Titles, 

 Badges and Costumes, Further Class Distinctions, Fashion, 

 Past and Future of Ceremony. 



