| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: So the letter ran, and it went to her heart directly as rain to
the thirsty roots of flowers. He loved her. Whatever happened,
she would always have that comfort. They might kill him, but they
could not take away that. The words of an old Scotch song that
Mrs. Mackenzie sang came back to her:
"The span o' life's nae large eneugh,
Nor deep enough the sea,
Nor braid eneugh this weary warld,
To part my love frae me."
No, they could not part their hearts in this world or the next,
and with this sad comfort she flung herself on the rough bed and
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: Leyden jar, and the retardation of the current predicted by Faraday
manifests itself in every message sent by such cables.
The meaning of Faraday in these memoirs on Induction and Conduction
is, as I have said, by no means always clear; and the difficulty
will be most felt by those who are best trained in ordinary
theoretic conceptions. He does not know the reader's needs, and he
therefore does not meet them. For instance he speaks over and over
again of the impossibility of charging a body with one electricity,
though the impossibility is by no means evident. The key to the
difficulty is this. He looks upon every insulated conductor as the
inner coating of a Leyden jar. An insulated sphere in the middle of
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