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Excerpt from The Basis of Beauty, and Gymnasium Training for Children
It is one of the'vagaries of fashion to prescribe for us our manner of standing and walking. These, says our irresponsible mentor, must change from time to time, just as our garments do. These efforts and affectations are grotesque enough, and yet they are in reality stirrings toward reinstatement in the fine habits of fine nature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
