CONTENTS. XV 



II. 



OBJECT AND UTILITY OF THE PROPORTIONS. 

 CHAPTEK I. 



PAGE 



POINTS OF VIEW FROM WHICH THE PROPORTIONS ARE STUDIED . . . _. . . 357 



A. Kelation 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 



