| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: rather than let it fall into the hands of enemies. Guard it with
your life, John Carter, for some day it may mean more than life to you."
With this parting admonition our good friend turned back
toward Marentina, and we set our faces in the direction of the
city of Kadabra and the court of Salensus Oll, Jeddak of Jeddaks.
That very evening we came within sight of the walled and glass-roofed
city of Kadabra. It lies in a low depression near the pole, surrounded
by rocky, snow-clad hills. From the pass through which we entered
the valley we had a splendid view of this great city of the north.
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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 Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: had made the Sabbath for man, and not man for the Sabbath--let us
see, I say, if we cannot do something to prevent the townsman's
Sabbath being, not a day of rest, but a day of mere idleness; the
day of most temptation, because of most dulness, of the whole
seven.
And here, perhaps some sweet soul may look up reprovingly and say:
"He talks of rest. Does he forget, and would he have the working
man forget, that all these outward palliatives will never touch
the seat of the disease, the unrest of the soul within? Does he
forget, and would he have the working man forget, who it was who
said--who only has the right to say: "Come unto Me, all ye who
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