| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: own enactments. In both cases the right is the same, but the
exercise of the right is different; and this alteration produced
the most momentous consequences.
In all the confederations which had been formed before the
American Union the Federal Government demanded its supplies at
the hands of the separate Governments; and if the measure it
prescribed was onerous to any one of those bodies means were
found to evade its claims: if the State was powerful, it had
recourse to arms; if it was weak, it connived at the resistance
which the law of the Union, its sovereign, met with, and resorted
to inaction under the plea of inability. Under these
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum: "Don't ask so many questions, little boy."
"Why?"
"Ah, why indeed?" exclaimed the captain, looking at Button-Bright
admiringly. "If you don't ask questions you will learn nothing.
True enough. I was wrong. You're a very clever little boy, come to
think of it--very clever indeed. But now, friends, please come with
me, for it is my duty to escort you at once to the royal palace."
The soldiers marched back through the arch again, and with them
marched the shaggy man, Dorothy, Toto, and Button-Bright. Once
through the opening they found a fine, big city spread out before
them, all the houses of carved marble in beautiful colors. The
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