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US b}^ acting as a wholesome check to our enterprise. 

 Were it not for this antagonism we should build 

 ships that w^ould convey cities instead of their pre- 

 sent modest loads, and these would run at speed 

 calculated by seconds instead of days and weeks and 

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

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

 two things as closely as possible; the 'Great 

 Eastern' steamship for example. This artificial com- 

 bination is nowhere more striven after than in our 

 breed of horses, the English hunter for example. 



55. — We shall make this antagonism between 

 poiver and speed do us good service here. It enables 

 us to include every horse under the sun under three 

 logical divisions, namely. 



1. — Horses of Speed, e.g. Racehorses. 



2. — Horses of Powtt, e.g. Draughthorses. 



3. — Horses of Power and Speed, e.g. Hunters. 



It is apparent that the first two, being extremes, 

 will be in the minority, because most of our wants 

 require a combination of power and speed. 



56. — We must just allude to one other point, 

 and that is the rhythm of movement. Let us take 

 a simp^le movement, such as w^alking, and see what 

 the fore extremities do and are down to in this 

 rhythm. It will be seen on reference to Fig. 9, A, 

 that an attempt has been made to represent this 

 rhythm by a diagram which really represents two 

 rhythms. It will be seen that either rhythm is 

 included in a parallelogram made up of two equal 

 triangles, a a' a" and a h" h"'. They are equal 



