Show X X X K ihor ix X i y mankind still clings to pomp and ceremony it Is of course mere blindness and blundering to suppose that monarchy la decaying in the modern world the danger Is much more that the future governments will be too despotic than that they will be too democratic but it there Is one idea more ab surd than the idea that we have seen the end ot royall sm it Is the idea that we have seen the end 0 ritualism pomp and ceremony were always popular with the real populace nobody who has seen a I 1 have the long procession of the italian organization ot citizen soldiers passing the tomb of a new and nameless soldier and saluting it with a gesture three thousand years old can doubt that every crowd la the world really cries out for some such sacramental sign ceremony will not depart from man kind on tho contrary as in the case of monarchy it lg much more likely that it will be very difficult to get an english king even for two minutes to enjoy wearing a crown 0 K chesterton in the american magazine |