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The text discusses how to position a statue to ensure balance and gracefulness. It explains the importance of the right leg in supporting the statue, and how the left leg compensates for body inclination. It also discusses how extending the arms can shift the weight of the body.

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Positioning the Statues

Foot on a Stone, only some slight help contributes to the man's stance, to make him looser, more graceful, and yet still necessary, so that the statue without this help would topple over; nevertheless, you can see that the statue is mainly supported by the right leg. And the left leg more or less according to the size of the forward inclination of the upper body, also has to support more or less: Because like a weak pillar or tilted support bears little or much burden, or serves, depending on whether the weight bears heavily or not heavily, it presses; accordingly, one can understand to some extent that this left leg would have to bear more and more support when this man also bends more and more forward.

Moreover, one can see that if this man were to recover, the forward-bent body would have to go backward through the midline: But that he couldn't raise the upper body while staying with the legs in this position, unless with the thigh and knee of the right leg to bring back forward as much as the upper body would in restoring itself go backward. Similarly, also, the left leg would have to come back towards the midline, to be held in balance.

Furthermore, it can be easily observed that a human, by extending an arm, or both arms, can easily shift the body's weight; and from the leaning side onto the feet; For one can see that lifting the left arm weighs more to the right side, and hangs downward, and somewhat far from the midline.