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thorough means, not only for correcting its mani- 

 festations, but for restoring, the animal machinery, 

 at least for the moment, to perfect working order. 



§ 3. There seems no reason to suppose that the 

 body of man, more than the body of any other 

 animal, was intended to have a one-sided action. 

 Horses driven or ridden by one-sided men may 

 indeed be shaped into using always the right, or 

 always the left leg as the leading limb, or one par- 

 ticular side of the jaw as their favorite resisting 

 point. Other animals which such men train may 

 exhibit traces of similar tendencies, possibly the 

 offspring of these animals may have them from 

 their birth ; but we see no like partiality, as to the 

 use of his Hmbs or jaw, in the lion or tiger as they 

 grasp or tear their food, nor in the squirrel, as fol- 

 lowing, with precise adaptation of his body, the 

 direction of his eyes — he leaps from branch to 

 branch. Some particular point reached in the 

 respiratory action, or some casual inclination of 

 the head would rather seem to determine any 

 choice made by them as to which side shall com- 

 mence or lead a movement. 



W© may add that, although with civilized man 

 the right hand is almost always the ready hand, 

 and the left leg the bracing leg, yet the not in- 



