| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: case of ancient property, what you admit in the case of feudal
property, you are of course forbidden to admit in the case of
your own bourgeois form of property.
Abolition of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this
infamous proposal of the Communists.
On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family,
based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed
form this family exists only among the bourgeoisie. But this
state of things finds its complement in the practical absence of
the family among the proletarians, and in public prostitution.
The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its
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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 Whirligigs by O. Henry: and valid. And the children of this state shall lie down to
sleep at night, and rumours of disturbers of title shall not
disquiet them. For," concluded the Commissioner,
"of such is the Kingdom of Heaven."
In the silence that followed, a laugh floated up from
the patent-room below. The man who carried down the
Denny file was exhibiting it among the clerks.
"Look here," he said, delightedly, "the old man has
forgotten his name. He's written 'Patent to original
grantee,' and signed it 'Georgia Summerfield, Comr."'
The speech of the Commissioner rebounded lightly
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