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lirst on the lower jaw ; while the action of those which 

 work from the direction of the hinder limbs toward the 

 head centre at first on the shoulder-blades. They inter- 

 change from one of these gathering points to the other, 

 and finally, by the movement of the winding-lines in the 

 neck, and the virtual ball and socket at the neck-root, the 

 control of all the forces becomes collected in the neck, and 

 guided by the head working on the shoulders and lower 

 jaw, with the eyes as poles of direction. 



By a continuous raising of the head, allowing the neck to 

 adjust itself to the ensuing workings of the body, without 

 allowing any line to come to a discharge, the counteractions 

 of the various lines may all be brought into gathering, and 

 thus afterward require only to be loosened in a particular 

 connection to bring on the apjDropriate movements. 



The application of setting-up to the horse is called in 

 Manege language "Suppling." It may be carried out 

 on precisely the same principles in the horse as in man. 



Many years ago a Frenchman, by the name of Morquin^ 

 taught, in New York, a method of preparation for gymnastic 

 exercises, in which, by forcing the filling of the . lungs and 

 thus bringing on the movements of other parts, a com- 

 plete "setting up" was effected. This method may, we 

 think, be explained by one of the results of the theory here 

 given, but Mons. Morquin could render little or no account 

 of the why and wherefore. This practice seemed to have 

 originated in some accidental discovery when carrying out 

 the idea that the lungs must be well filled as a basis of 

 action. 



The methods for setting-up on horseback are, with al- 

 lowances for changed appuis, the same as for settiag-up on 

 foot. If the man can give proper action to the cross line 

 which is alternate to that whose winding lines have been 

 unnaturally confirmed, there then remains nothing to pre- 

 vent his following fully in his own body the gatherings and 



