| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Euthyphro by Plato: charging a father with murder,' may be a single instance of piety, but can
hardly be regarded as a general definition.
Euthyphro replies, that 'Piety is what is dear to the gods, and impiety is
what is not dear to them.' But may there not be differences of opinion, as
among men, so also among the gods? Especially, about good and evil, which
have no fixed rule; and these are precisely the sort of differences which
give rise to quarrels. And therefore what may be dear to one god may not
be dear to another, and the same action may be both pious and impious; e.g.
your chastisement of your father, Euthyphro, may be dear or pleasing to
Zeus (who inflicted a similar chastisement on his own father), but not
equally pleasing to Cronos or Uranus (who suffered at the hands of their
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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 Glasses by Henry James: the Hammond Synges have kindly left her to live on? Not quite
eighty pounds a year."
"That's a good deal, but it won't pay the oculist. What was it
that at last induced her to submit to him?"
"Her general collapse after that brute of an Iffield's rupture.
She cried her eyes out--she passed through a horror of black
darkness. Then came a gleam of light, and the light appears to
have broadened. She went into goggles as repentant Magdalens go
into the Catholic church."
"In spite of which you don't think she'll be saved?"
"SHE thinks she will--that's all I can tell you. There's no doubt
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