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Pofture which is peculiar to thenifelves ; the Foundation of 

 tlieir general Notions, is, it I may fo fay, the fime, but yet 

 each Country has prefcribcd Rules for the Placing of the 

 Alan in the Saddle. 



This Contrariety of Opinions, which have their Origin 

 more in Prejudice, than in Truth and Reality, has given 

 rife to many vain Reafonings and Speculations, each Syfleni 

 having its Followers ; and, as if Truth was not always the 

 fame and unchangeable, but at liberty to aifume various, 

 and even oppolite Appearances ; fometimes one Opinion 

 prevailed, fometimes another dazzled ; infomuch, that thofe 

 who underftand nothing oi the Subject, but yet are deiirous- 

 of informing themfelves, by fearching it to the Bottom, have 

 hitherto been loft in Doubt and Perplexity. 



There Is neverthelefs a fure and infallible Method, by the 

 Afliftance of which it would be very eafy to overturn all 

 thefe Syftems : But not to enter into a needlefs Detail, of 

 the extravagant Notions which the Seat alone has given: 

 rife to, let us trace it from Principles by fo much the more 

 folld, as their Authority will be fupported by the moft con- 

 vincino; and felf-evident Reafons. 



In order to fucceed in an Art where the Mechanifm of the 

 Body Is abfolutely neceftary, and where each Part of the Body 

 has proper Fundllons, which are peculiar to it, it Is moft cer- 

 tain, that all and every Part of the Body iliould be in a natu- 

 ral Pofture J were they in an imperfedl Situation, they would 

 want that Eafe and Freedom which is infeparable from 



Grace ; 



