If it is pulverized, we touch it with the little finger.
We change the finger as the body is solid, humid, delicate, or powdery.
The orator who uses the fingers in gesticulation, gives proof of great delicacy of mind.
Of the Legs.
The legs have nine positions which we call base attitudes.
We shall give a detailed description, summing up in a chart of the criterion of the legs at the end of this section.
First Attitude.--This consists in the equal balance of the body upon its two legs. It is that of a child posed upon its feet, neither of which extends farther than the other. This attitude is normal, and is the sign of weakness, of respect; for respect is a sort of weakness for the person we address. It also characterizes infancy, decay.
Second Attitude.--In this attitude the strong leg is backward, the free one forward. This is the attitude of reflection, of concentration, of the strong man. It indicates the absence of passions, or of concentred passions. It has something of intelligence;
