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better notice, namely, that of the bulky fleshy 

 part, the greatest bulk is at the back of the 

 shoulder blade and arm bone, the shoulder get- 

 ting more and more bulky as it descends. Look 

 steadily first at the column of bones unclothed 

 until you can see them in your mind's eye 

 through their fleshy clothing, because I give you 

 warning that we are now going to represent all 

 we have got to say further by straight, bare lines 

 only. 



54. — Before going any further, we must revert 

 to the dry subject of levers. Let me impress 

 upon you this universal law, that power and 

 speed are always related to each other, but that 

 this relation is always antagonistic. Expressed 

 in other words it is this, 'if you gain power you 

 lose speed,' which is only saying, of course, that 

 'if you gain speed you lose power.' This uni- 

 versal law does a great deal for us by acting as a 

 wholesome check to our enterprise. Were it not 

 for this antagonism we should build ships that 

 would convey cities instead of their present mod- 

 est loads, and these would run at speed calcu- 

 lated by seconds instead of days and weeks and 

 so forth. This law has existed, and wiU exist, 

 through all time. We, however, try to xmite the 

 two things as closely as possible ; the ' Great 

 Eastern' steamship for example. This artificial 

 combination is nowhere more striven after than 

 in our breed of horses, the English hunter for 

 example. 



55. — We shall make this antagonism between 

 power and speed do us good service here. It 



