| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson: like a rag, and pale like a dead leaf before my eyes?"
"Because the morrow has come that I have thought upon, and the hour
of my power," said the crone; and she fell on the beach, and, lo!
she was but stalks of the sea tangle, and dust of the sea sand, and
the sand lice hopped upon the place of her.
"This is the strangest thing that befell between two seas," said
the King's daughter of Duntrine.
But the nurse broke out and moaned like an autumn gale. "I am
weary of the wind," quoth she; and she bewailed her day.
The King's daughter was aware of a man upon the beach; he went
hooded so that none might perceive his face, and a pipe was
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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: and those changes which are accompanied with considerable expense
are more especially advocated, since the object is to render the
condition of the poor more tolerable, who cannot pay for
themselves.
Moreover, all democratic communities are agitated by an ill-
defined excitement and by a kind of feverish impatience, that
engender a multitude of innovations, almost all of which are
attended with expense.
In monarchies and aristocracies the natural taste which the
rulers have for power and for renown is stimulated by the
promptings of ambition, and they are frequently incited by these
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