| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: and where an acre of gold is worth a thousand souls, and a reef of shining
dirt is worth half a people, and the vultures are heavy with man's flesh--
even here that day shall come. I tell you, Peter Simon Halket, that here
on the spot where now we stand shall be raised a temple. Man shall not
gather in it to worship that which divides; but they shall stand in it
shoulder to shoulder, white man with black, and the stranger with the
inhabitant of the land; and the place shall be holy; for men shall say,
'Are we not brethren and the sons of one Father?'"
Peter Halket looked upward silently. And the stranger said: "Certain men
slept upon a plain, and the night was chill and dark. And, as they slept,
at that hour when night is darkest, one stirred. Far off to the eastward,
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Myths and Myth-Makers by John Fiske: library by order of Omar. The latter are isolated stories or
beliefs; the former is one of a family of stories or beliefs.
The latter are untrustworthy traditions of doubtful events;
but in dealing with the former, we are face to face with a
MYTH.
What, then, is a myth? The theory of Euhemeros, which was so
fashionable a century ago, in the days of the Abbe Banier, has
long since been so utterly abandoned that to refute it now is
but to slay the slain. The peculiarity of this theory was that
it cut away all the extraordinary features of a given myth,
wherein dwelt its inmost significance, and to the dull and
Myths and Myth-Makers |
| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake: Old John, with white hair,
Does laugh away care,
Sitting under the oak,
Among the old folk.
They laugh at our play,
And soon they all say,
'Such, such were the joys
When we all--girls and boys -
In our youth-time were seen
On the echoing green.'
Till the little ones, weary,
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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 U. S. Project Trinity Report by Carl Maag and Steve Rohrer: test area and his cumulative exposure history were recorded and
maintained (1).
4.2 GAMMA RADIATION EXPOSURE
The safety and monitoring report lists film badge readings for about
700 individuals who participated in Project TRINITY from 16 July 1945
to 1 January 1946 (1). This list includes both military and
nonmilitary personnel who were involved with the TRINITY operation and
postshot activities. However, records are available for only 44 of
the 144 to 160 members of the evacuation detachment (1). In addition,
some of these film badge listings may be for personnel who were only
peripherally involved with TRINITY activities, such as family members
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