it is neither the position of the child nor of the uncultured man. It indicates calmness, strength, independence, which are signs of intelligence. It is the concentric state.
Third Attitude.--Here the strong leg is forward, the free leg backward. This is the type of vehemence. It is the eccentric attitude.
The orator who would appear passive, that is, as experiencing some emotion, or submitting to some action, must have a backward pose as in figure 2.
If, on the contrary, he would communicate to his audience the expression of his will or of his own thought, he must have a forward poise as in figure 3.
Fourth Attitude.--Here the strong leg is behind, as in the second attitude, but far more apart from the other and more inflected.
This is very nearly the attitude of the fencing master, except the position of the foot, which is straight instead of being turned outward.
This is a sign of the weakness which follows vehemence.
Natural weakness is portrayed in figure 1; sudden weakness in figure 4.