| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: took the downward trail at once.
"If Miss Helen can keep him in play till we arrive," murmured Mac
anxiously.
"She can if he gives her a chance, and I think he will. There's a
kind of cat instinct in him to play with his prey."
"Yes, but he missed his kill last time by letting her fool him.
That's what I'm afraid of' that he won't wait."
They had reached lower ground now, and could put their ponies at
a pounding gallop that ate up the trail fast. As they approached
the houses, both men drew rein and looked carefully to their
weapons. Then they slid from the saddles and slipped noiselessly
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin: As the height of the plane of perpetual snow seems chiefly to
be determined by the extreme heat of the summer, rather than
by the mean temperature of the year, we ought not to be
surprised at its descent in the Strait of Magellan, where the
summer is so cool, to only 3500 or 4000 feet above the level of
the sea; although in Norway, we must travel to between lat. 67
and 70 degs. N., that is, about 14 degs. nearer the pole, to meet
with perpetual snow at this low level. The difference in height,
namely, about 9000 feet, between the snow-line on the Cordillera
behind Chiloe (with its highest points ranging from
only 5600 to 7500 feet) and in central Chile [11] (a distance of
The Voyage of the Beagle |
