| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: will do. Tea won't be enough. We'll go down to Kearney Street,
or to the market, and get some crackers to go with it."
They hurried back to the California market, a few blocks distant,
and bought some crackers and a wedge of new cheese. On the way
back to Chinatown Travis stopped at a music store on Kearney
Street to get her banjo, which she had left to have its head
tightened; and thus burdened they regained the "town," Condy
grieving audibly at having to carry "brown-paper bundles through
the street."
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: [2] For these {oi omoioi}, see "Cyrop." I. v. 5; "Hell." III. iii. 5.
[3] Lit. "supplies and necessaries."
But I will resume at a somewhat higher point and describe the manner
in which the king sets out on an expedition. As a preliminary step,
before leaving home he offers sacrifice (in company with[4] his staff)
to Zeus Agetor (the Leader), and if the victims prove favourable then
and there the priest,[5] who bears the sacred fire, takes thereof from
off the altar and leads the way to the boundaries of the land. Here
for the second time the king does sacrifice[6] to Zeus and Athena; and
as soon as the offerings are accepted by those two divinities he steps
across the boundaries of the land. And all the while the fire from
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