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Motion is generally
divided into six kinds, but circular motion must be
regarded as a seventh. The latter alone is faulty
when applied to gesture. The remaining motions—
that is, forward, to right or left and up or down—all
have their significance, but the gesture is never
directed to what lies behind us, though we do at
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times throw the hand back.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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