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Excerpt from Radical-Mechanics of Animal Locomotion: With Remarks on the Setting-Up of Soldiers, Horse and Foot, and on the Supplying of Cavalry Horses
In the following discussion we have taken the ground that only a man who is ambidexter can have the perfect command and full force of the movements of his body; whether, indeed, some slight inclination to one side be necessary to avoid a sort of dead-centre catch, we cannot positivelysay, since some observers affirm that they have discovered the tendency to a favorite side, even in wild animals; and also since it is obvious that the position of the stomach, subject as this organ is, to an increase in size disproportionate to its pendant the liver, would favor a right hand and left leg preponderance which, indeed, is so general among civilized men that it has come to be considered as the normal condition of the frame. However this may be, we think it evident that the preponderance need be but very slight, and that anything beyond this measure interferes with the force and free movement of both sets of diagonal limbs.
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