| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: with a clearness which showed the calmness of his con-
science. Perhaps then, by looking close, Michael's hand
might have been seen feeling for the reins, and giving the
horse a more rapid pace, to the great astonishment of Serko,
who, however, said nothing. The trot was exchanged for
the amble as soon as Nicholas awoke, but the kibitka had
not the less gained some versts.
Thus they passed the river Ichirnsk, the villages of
Ichisnokoe, Berikylokoe, Kuskoe, the river Marunsk, the
village of the same name, Bogostowskoe, and, lastly, the
Ichoula, a little stream which divides Western from Eastern
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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 War and the Future by H. G. Wells: very different men. They have at least one thing in common; it
is clear that not one of them has spent ten minutes in all his
life in thinking of himself as a Personage or Great Man. They
all have the effect of being active and able men doing an
extremely complicated and difficult but extremely interesting job
to the very best of their ability. With me they had all one
quality in common. They thought I was interested in what they
were doing, and they were quite prepared to treat me as an
intelligent man of a different sort, and to show me as much as I
could understand....
Let me confess that de Tessin had had to persuade me to go to
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