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1 6 | nature nothing has a movement backwards, nor has a moving animal 2 7 | left hip rather inclined backwards, so that their middle becomes 3 12| For men bend their arms backwards, their legs forwards; quadrupeds 4 12| forwards, their back legs backwards, and in like manner also 5 12| forwards, impossible if it be backwards. For, if it be forwards, 6 12| other way, while it is going backwards. And again, if the flexion 7 12| again, if the flexion were backwards, the placing of the foot 8 12| one another, one, that is, backwards and one forwards; for in 9 12| end of the thigh would go backwards, and the shin would move 10 12| forth, but his arms bend backwards reasonably enough. If they 11 12| but the flexion being backwards, as in fact it is, nothing 12 13| hind may bend either both backwards, as the figures marked A, 13 13| forwards and the hind bend backwards, or as in D, the opposite 14 13| case of the legs, the hip backwards, the knee forwards, the 15 13| ankle in the opposite way backwards. And plainly the lower limbs 16 13| bending forwards, the hip backwards; wherefore also the ankle 17 13| wherefore also the ankle bends backwards, and the wrist of the hand 18 15| flexion of the leg must be backwards, as in the hind legs of 19 16| under (bandy-shape) and backwards is plain. In all such creatures 20 16| flexion both forwards and backwards; on account of leading, 21 16| on account of following, backwards. Now since they have to