| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: the returns, by the usual fleets, to him in my name; and by a
clause in the end, made a grant of one hundred moidores a year to
him during his life, out of the effects, and fifty moidores a year
to his son after him, for his life: and thus I requited my old man.
I had now to consider which way to steer my course next, and what
to do with the estate that Providence had thus put into my hands;
and, indeed, I had more care upon my head now than I had in my
state of life in the island where I wanted nothing but what I had,
and had nothing but what I wanted; whereas I had now a great charge
upon me, and my business was how to secure it. I had not a cave
now to hide my money in, or a place where it might lie without lock
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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 Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: independence, and enter the Union upon a footing of perfect
equality. If, however, the inhabitants of the United States were
to be considered as belonging to one and the same nation, it
would be just that the majority of the citizens of the Union
should prescribe the law. Of course the lesser States could not
subscribe to the application of this doctrine without, in fact,
abdicating their existence in relation to the sovereignty of the
Confederation; since they would have passed from the condition of
a co-equal and co-legislative authority to that of an
insignificant fraction of a great people. But if the former
system would have invested them with an excessive authority, the
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