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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE MODERATE AND THE QUICK PACE. These will be best understood by a reference to the pace which we have just described; the principal difference between them being as to the part of the foot which first touches and last leaves the ground, and this being the circumstance in them which has been altogether overlooked. We have seen that, in the march, the toe externally first touches, and internally last leaves the ground; and so marked is this tendency, that, in the stage step, which is meant to be especially dignified, ?as the posterior foot acquires an awkward flexure when the weight has been thrown on the anterior, ?in order to correct this, the former is for an instant extended, its toe even turned backwards and outwards, and its tip internally alone rested on the ground, previous to its being in its turn advanced.?Thus the toe's first touching and last leaving the ground, is peculiarly marked in this grandest form of the march. We shall find, that the times of the other two paces suffer successively less and less of this extended touching with the toe, and covering the ground with the foot. THE MODERATE PACE. Here, it is no longer the toe, but the ball of the foot, which first touches and last leaves the ground; its outer edge orthe ball of the little toe first breaking the descent of the foot, and its inner edge or the ball of the great toe last projecting the weight.?(Plate I. Figures 3 and 4.) Thus, in this step, less of the foot may be said actively to cover the ground; the footstep is in effect rendered shorter by the difference of the length of the toes; the pace is accelerated just in proportion; and this adoption of nearer and stronger points of support and action is essential to the increased quickness and exertion of the pace. This pace has never b...
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