| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: and out from his shoulders savagely. In the flickering candle
light, with contorted face and snarling lips, he looked again the
beast to which she had once likened him.
"Never mind how I'm going to get her!" he flung out, with an oath.
"I told you I'd been busy. That's enough! You'll see
Rhoda Gray, in the semi-darkness, shrugged her shoulders. Was the
man, prompted by rage and fury, simply making wild threats, or had
he at last some definite and perhaps infallible plan that he
purposed putting into operation? She did not know; and, much as it
meant to her, she did not dare take the risk of arousing suspicion
by pressing the question. Failing, then, to obtain any intimation
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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 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: emancipation of the proletariat. They therefore search after a
new social science, after new social laws, that are to create
these conditions.
Historical action is to yield to their personal inventive
action, historically created conditions of emancipation to
fantastic ones, and the gradual, spontaneous class-organisation
of the proletariat to the organisation of society specially
contrived by these inventors. Future history resolves itself, in
their eyes, into the propaganda and the practical carrying out of
their social plans.
In the formation of their plans they are conscious of caring
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: bright colors and strange figures, and hung with tapestries of
silks and satins and gold and silver. The ceiling was painted to
represent the sky, through which flew beautiful birds and winged
figures so life-like that no one could tell that they were only
painted, and not real. At the farther side of the room were two
richly cushioned couches, and thither the old man led the way
with the young spendthrift following, wonder-struck, and there
the two sat themselves down. Then the old man smote his hands
together, and, in answer, ten young men and ten beautiful girls
entered bearing a feast of rare fruits and wines which they
spread before them, and the young man, who had been fasting since
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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 Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: he's got me like a rat in a trap. All he's got to do is
to have me watched, and wait--wait till I slip ashore,
thinking he is a thousand miles away, then slip after
me and dog me to a good place and make me give up
the di'monds, and then he'll--oh, I know what he'll
do! Ain't it awful--awful! And now to think the OTHER
one's aboard, too! Oh, ain't it hard luck, boys--ain't it
hard! But you'll help save me, WON'T you?--oh, boys,
be good to a poor devil that's being hunted to death,
and save me--I'll worship the very ground you walk on!"
We turned in and soothed him down and told him we would
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