| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: deliberation attending this judgement. St. George broke into a
laugh to reply. "It's the best thing you can do with her. She's a
rare young lady! In point of fact, however, I confess I hadn't
read you this afternoon."
"Then you see how right I was in this particular case not to
believe Miss Fancourt."
"How right? how can I agree to that when I lost credit by it?"
"Do you wish to pass exactly for what she represents you?
Certainly you needn't be afraid," Paul said.
"Ah, my dear young man, don't talk about passing - for the likes of
me! I'm passing away - nothing else than that. She has a better
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: which is felt in England and in the United States, and the high
opinion which is generally entertained of the ability of the
legal profession, tend to separate it more and more from the
people, and to place it in a distinct class. The French lawyer
is simply a man extensively acquainted with the statutes of his
country; but the English or American lawyer resembles the
hierophants of Egypt, for, like them, he is the sole interpreter
of an occult science.
The station which lawyers occupy in England and America
exercises no less an influence upon their habits and their
opinions. The English aristocracy, which has taken care to
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