| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: emendation of the MS. {sundikasai}; see Demosthenes, 1137, 1.
[17] Reading {oste}, lit. "so as to get a far less just judgment."
But besides this we cannot escape the conclusion that the Athenians
have their festivals to keep, during which the courts cannot sit.[18]
As a matter of fact these festivals are twice as numerous as those of
any other people. But I will reckon them as merely equal to those of
the state which has the fewest.
[18] Lit. "it is not possible to give judgment"; or, "for juries to
sit."
This being so, I maintain that it is not possible for business affairs
at Athens to stand on any very different footing from the present,
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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 The Psychology of Revolution by Gustave le Bon: poverty and anarchy.
The capital role of the elect in modern civilisation seems
too obvious to need pointing out. In the case of civilised
nations and barbarian peoples, which contain similar averages of
mediocrities, the superiority of the former arises solely from
the superior minds which they contain. The United States have
understood this so thoroughly that they forbid the immigration of
Chinese workers, whose capacity is identical with that of
American workers, and who, working for lower wages, tend to
create a formidable competition with the latter. Despite these
evidences we see the antagonism between the multitude and the
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