| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Emma by Jane Austen: of what had passed,--aware of the anxiety and alarm it would occasion:
but she soon felt that concealment must be impossible. Within half
an hour it was known all over Highbury. It was the very event
to engage those who talk most, the young and the low; and all
the youth and servants in the place were soon in the happiness of
frightful news. The last night's ball seemed lost in the gipsies.
Poor Mr. Woodhouse trembled as he sat, and, as Emma had foreseen,
would scarcely be satisfied without their promising never to go
beyond the shrubbery again. It was some comfort to him that many
inquiries after himself and Miss Woodhouse (for his neighbours
knew that he loved to be inquired after), as well as Miss Smith,
Emma |
The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: Germany, except they can prove their gentility by three descents,
they scorn to match with them. A nobleman must marry a noblewoman;
a baron, a baron's daughter; a knight, a knight's. As slaters sort
their slates, do they degrees and families."
And doubtless this theory--like all which have held their ground for
many centuries--at first represented a fact. These castes were, at
first, actually superior to the peoples over whom they ruled. I
cannot, as long as my eyes are open, yield to the modern theory of
the equality--indeed of the non-existence--of races. Holding, as I
do, the primaeval unity of the human race, I see in that race the
same inclination to sport into fresh varieties, the same competition
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