| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from God The Invisible King by H. G. Wells: phenomena our own yearning and our own almost ineradicable
instinctive conviction, since they are certainly not founded on
either reason or observation, are in origin the groping of a lonely-
souled gregarious animal to find its herd or its herd-leader in the
great spaces between the stars.
"At any rate, it is a belief very difficult to get rid of."
There the passage and the lecture end.
I would urge that here again is an inadvertent witness to the
reality of God.
Professor Murray writes of gregarious animals as though there
existed solitary animals that are not gregarious, pure
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: places, and carries the heaviest load over the portages, and leads
the way on the long journeys.
It has taken me longer to describe our men than it took them to
prepare our frugal meal: a pot of tea, the woodsman's favourite
drink, (I never knew a good guide that would not go without whisky
rather than without tea,) a few slices of toast and juicy rashers
of bacon, a kettle of boiled potatoes, and a relish of crackers and
cheese. We were in a hurry to be off for an afternoon's fishing,
three or four miles down the river, at the Ile Maligne.
The island is well named, for it is the most perilous place on the
river, and has a record of disaster and death. The scattered
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