| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Proposed Roads To Freedom by Bertrand Russell: well-being by the simultaneous increase of commodities
and diminution of hours of labor.
This subject has been specially studied by Kropotkin,
who, whatever may be thought of his general
theories of politics, is remarkably instructive, concrete
and convincing in all that he says about the
possibilities of agriculture. Socialists and Anarchists
in the main are products of industrial life, and
few among them have any practical knowledge on the
subject of food production. But Kropotkin is an
exception. His two books, ``The Conquest of Bread''
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: Lama Temple and the Confucian Temple, in the former of which
there is a statue of Buddha seventy-five feet high, and from
thirteen to fifteen hundred priests who worship daily at his
shrine. This statue is made of stucco, over a framework, and not
of wood as some have told us, and as the guide will assure us at
the present day. One can ascend to a level with its head by
several flights of stairs, where a lamp is lit when the Emperor
visits the temple. In the east wing of this same building is a
prayer-wheel, which reaches up through several successive
stories, and is kept in motion while the Emperor is present.
In the east side buildings there are a few interesting, though in
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