| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: ubi bellum gesserat, legionibus in hiberna deductis, in Italiam profectus
est. Ob easque res ex litteris Caesaris dierum XV supplicatio decreta
est, quod ante id tempus accidit nulli.
C. IULI CAESARIS
DE BELLO GALLICO
COMMENTARIUS TERTIUS
CVM in Italiam proficisceretur Caesar, Ser. Galbam cum legione XII.
et parte equitatus in Nantuates, Veragros Sedunosque misit, qui a finibus
Allobrogum et lacu Lemanno et flumine Rhodano ad summas Alpes pertinent.
Causa mittendi fuit quod iter per Alpes, quo magno cum periculo magnisque
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: the banks of an almost dried up river bed, a small camp had been pitched.
The party had lost their mules, and pending their recovery had already been
there seven days. The three cart loads of provisions they were conveying
to the large camp were drawn up under the trees and had a sail thrown
across them to form a shelter for some of the men; while on the other side
of the cleared and open space that formed the camp, a smaller sail was
thrown across two poles forming a rough tent; and away to the left, a
little cut off from the rest of the camp by some low bushes, was the bell-
shaped tent of the captain, under a tall tree. Before the bell-shaped tent
stood a short stunted tree; its thick white stem gnarled and knotted; while
two stunted misshapen branches, like arms, stretched out on either side.
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