The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Proposed Roads To Freedom by Bertrand Russell: of view its vigor and its distinctive character are
derived. It aims at substituting industrial for political
action, and at using Trade Union organization
for purposes for which orthodox Socialism would
look to Parliament. ``Syndicalism'' was originally
only the French name for Trade Unionism, but the
Trade Unionists of France became divided into two
sections, the Reformist and the Revolutionary, of
whom the latter only professed the ideas which we
now associate with the term ``Syndicalism.'' It is
quite impossible to guess how far either the organization
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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 Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: and said no--that a comrade once was a comrade always. Then she
spoke of the men of Forty Mile; that they were many men and good;
and that they looked to me for grub in the spring. But when I
still said no, she snatched the pistol from my belt, quick, and as
our brother Bettles has spoken, Long Jeff went to the bosom of
Abraham before his time. I chided Passuk for this; but she showed
no sorrow, nor was she sorrowful. And in my heart I knew she was
right."
Sitka Charley paused and threw pieces of ice into the gold pan on
the stove. The men were silent, and their backs chilled to the
sobbing cries of the dogs as they gave tongue to their misery in
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