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His own body does not illustrate the law of fitness and beauty, though during the whole growing period it is striving to fulfil it. Below is a drawing from Zeizing of the newly-born child. The head is enormous, the upper part of the body long in proportion to the lower. Every part seems to feel the force of gravity. To be sure the years that follow bring a great change in the proportions of the figure, so that at seven a child is as little like an infant of a week old as he is like a man of thirty years. The helpless, earthward-borne form is