LECTURE III. 14-9 



amongst men, as amongst horses, two dis- 

 tinct forms, one calculated for strength, the 

 other for speed or agility. The former is 

 chiefly characterized in man by the short- 

 ness of the neck and loins, the greater pro- 

 portionate breadth of the shoulders, the 

 broad and highly arched foot, with a much 

 projecting heel. The latter is distinguish- 

 able by the length of the neck and loins, 

 the length of the thighs, by a narrower 

 and longer foot, with a less projecting heel. 

 Persons of the form that indicates strength 

 are generally shorter than those of the 

 other figure, so that we associate an idea of 

 the height of a person with his make. 

 This subject was remarked by Hogarth, 

 who savs, that if the figures of Quin and 

 Garrick were represented of the same size, 

 an observer would suppose Garrick to have 

 been a tall man, and Quin a short one. 

 Yet the contrary being the fact, he accounts 

 for the deception, by saying, that Quin was 

 a tall man of short proportions, and Garrick 

 a short man with tall proportions. The 

 Farnesian Hercules is an admirable repre- 

 sentation of the strong foi-m of man, but no 



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