| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: liquefaction of muriatic gas. Faraday continued the experiments,
and succeeded in reducing a number of gases till then deemed permanent
to the liquid condition. In 1844 he returned to the subject, and
considerably expanded its limits. These important investigations
established the fact that gases are but the vapours of liquids
possessing a very low boiling-point, and gave a sure basis to our
views of molecular aggregation. The account of the first investigation
was read before the Royal Society on April 10, 1823, and was
published, in Faraday's name, in the 'Philosophical Transactions.'
The second memoir was sent to the Royal Society on December 19, 1844.
I may add that while he was conducting his first experiments on the
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: black jacket, with satin yoke and high puffed sleeves. But,
whatever the weather may be, they make no change in the large, full
dark skirts, almost completely covered with immense silk aprons, by
preference light blue. It is not a remarkably brilliant dress,
compared with that which one may still see in some districts of
Norway or Sweden, but upon the whole it suits the women of the
Ampezzo wonderfully.
For my part, I think that when a woman has found a dress that
becomes her, it is a waste of time to send to Paris for a fashion-
plate.
III.
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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 The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: branch," said Wetzel, positively. "The other leads to the Huron towns.
Girty's got a place near the Delaware camp somewheres. I've tried to find it a
good many times. He's took more'n one white lass there, an' nobody ever seen
her agin."
"Fiend! To think of a white woman, maybe a girl like Nell Wells, at the mercy
of those red devils!"
"Young fellar, don't go wrong. I'll allow Injuns is bad enough; but I never
hearn tell of one abusin' a white woman, as mayhap you mean. Injuns marry
white women sometimes; kill an' scalp 'em often, but that's all. It's men of
our own color, renegades like this Girty, as do worse'n murder."
Here was the amazing circumstance of Lewis Wetzel, the acknowledged unsatiable
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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 A treatise on Good Works by Dr. Martin Luther: and their own friends; but when it is done to the poor, or the
despised or their own enemy, they are quiet and patient. These
see the Name and the honor of God not as it is, but through a
painted glass, and measure truth or righteousness according to
the persons, and do not consider their deceiving eye, which looks
more on the person than on the thing. These are hypocrites within
and have only the appearance of defending the truth. For they
well know that there is no danger when one helps the rich, the
powerful, the learned and one's own friends, and can in turn
enjoy their protection and be honored by them.
Thus it is very easy to fight against the wrong which is done to
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