| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: maleficio existimabat. Tamen, ut spatium intercedere posset dum milites
quos imperaverat convenirent, legatis respondit diem se ad deliberandum
sumpturum: si quid vellent, ad Id. April. reverterentur.
Interea ea legione quam secum habebat militibusque, qui ex provincia
convenerant, a lacu Lemanno, qui in flumen Rhodanum influit, ad montem
Iuram, qui fines Sequanorum ab Helvetiis dividit, milia passuum XVIIII
murum in altitudinem pedum sedecim fossamque perducit. Eo opere perfecto
praesidia disponit, castella communit, quo facilius, si se invito transire
conentur, prohibere possit. Ubi ea dies quam constituerat cum legatis
venit et legati ad eum reverterunt, negat se more et exemplo populi Romani
posse iter ulli per provinciam dare et, si vim lacere conentur,
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau: if I alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax. They plainly
did not know how to treat me, but behaved like persons who
are underbred. In every threat and in every compliment
there was a blunder; for they thought that my chief desire
was to stand the other side of that stone wall. I could not
but smile to see how industriously they locked the door on
my meditations, which followed them out again without let or
hindrance, and they were really all that was dangerous.
As they could not reach me, they had resolved to punish
my body; just as boys, if they cannot come at some person
against whom they have a spite, will abuse his dog. I saw
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