CONTENTS. XV 



PART II. 



OBJECT AND UTILITY OF THE PROPORTIONS. 



CHAPTER I. 



PAGE 



Points of View from which the Proportions are studied 357 



A. Relation of Dimensions between the Parts 358 



B. Angular Relations of the Osseous Segments . 365 



Theory of the Similitude of the Angles and the Parallelism of the 



Bony Segments 365 



C. General Relations of the Ensemble, the Whole Organism 385 



D. Relations of the Organism with the Nervous System 397 



CHAPTER II. 



Isolated Effects of Beautiful Proportions upon the Animal Ma- 

 chine 404 



A. Conditions of the Motor en Mode de Masse, or of Force 405 



B. Conditions of the Motor en Mode de Vitesse, or of Speed 407 



C. Conditions of the Mixed Motor. (Combination of Force and Speed 



realized ) -408 



D. Excitability ; Impressionability ; Irritability 410 



CHAPTER III. 



Result of Beautiful Proportions upon the Animal Machine . . . 412 

 Resistance to Fatigue : Endurance 412 



CHAPTER IV. 

 Definitive Synthesis 429 



SECTION FOURTH, 



THE HORSE IN RELATION TO LOCOMOTION. 



PART I. 



ATTITUDES AND MOVEMENTS UPON PLACE. 



CHAPTER I. 



Attitudes •• 438 



A. Station . . . ' 438 



Axes, Equilibrium 442 



a. Of the Anterior Members 443 



b. Of the Posterior Members 456 



B. Lying Down or Decubitus 466 



