| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: another in the fall. But wherever or whenever it be, a tea-house,
placed to command the best view of the sight, stands ready to
receive him. For nature's beauties are too well recognized to
remain the exclusive property of the first chance lover. People
flock to view nature as we do to see a play, and privacy is as
impossible as it is unsought. Indeed, the aversion to publicity is
simply a result of the sense of self, and therefore necessarily not
a feature of so impersonal a civilization. Aesthetic guidebooks
are written for the nature-enamoured, descriptive of these views
which the Japanese translator quaintly calls "Sceneries," and which
visitors come not only from near but from far to gaze upon. In
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from King James Bible: the firstborn, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, and Ahijah.
CH1 2:26 Jerahmeel had also another wife, whose name was Atarah; she
was the mother of Onam.
CH1 2:27 And the sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were, Maaz, and
Jamin, and Eker.
CH1 2:28 And the sons of Onam were, Shammai, and Jada. And the sons of
Shammai; Nadab and Abishur.
CH1 2:29 And the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail, and she bare
him Ahban, and Molid.
CH1 2:30 And the sons of Nadab; Seled, and Appaim: but Seled died
without children.
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