| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger: men and women will have come to the realization, already suggested,
that here close at hand is our paradise, our everlasting abode, our
Heaven and our eternity. Not by leaving it and our essential humanity
behind us, nor by sighing to be anything but what we are, shall we
ever become ennobled or immortal. Not for woman only, but for all of
humanity is this the field where we must seek the secret of eternal
life.
[1] Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences. Volume XV.
[2] Conklin, The Direction of Human Evolution. ``When it is
remembered that mental capacity is inherited, that parents of
low intelligence generally produce children of low intelligence,
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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 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas: organized, and she is peculiarly susceptible to the odors
even of flowers -- nay, there are some which cause her to
faint if brought into her presence. However," continued
Monte Cristo, drawing a small phial from his pocket, "I have
an infallible remedy." So saying, he bowed to the baroness
and her daughter, exchanged a parting shake of the hand with
Debray and the count, and left Madame Danglars' box. Upon
his return to Haidee he found her still very pale. As soon
as she saw him she seized his hand; her own hands were moist
and icy cold. "Who was it you were talking with over there?"
she asked.
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