| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft: we were compelled to smother our wounded feel-
ings, and crouch beneath the iron heel of des-
potism.
I must now give the account of our escape;
but, before doing so, it may be well to quote
a few passages from the fundamental laws of
slavery; in order to give some idea of the
legal as well as the social tyranny from which
we fled.
According to the law of Louisiana, "A slave
is one who is in the power of a master to whom he
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: as though the dear Lord didn't know what he was about when He gave horses
and oxen legs--the destruction of the Lord will follow them. I don't know
how such people read their Bibles. When do we hear of Moses or Noah riding
in a railway? The Lord sent fire-carriages out of heaven in those days:
there's no chance of His sending them for us if we go on in this way," said
Tant Sannie sorrowfully, thinking of the splendid chance which this
generation had lost.
Arrived at the soap-pot she looked over into it thoughtfully.
"Depend upon it you'll get the itch, or some other disease; the blessing of
the Lord'll never rest upon it," said the Boer-woman. Then suddenly she
broke forth. "And she eighty-two, and goats, and rams, and eight thousand
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