| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from A Straight Deal by Owen Wister: in Eastern cities, persons with at least the external trappings of
educated intelligence, play into the hands of the Germany of to-morrow,
do their unconscious little bit of harm to the future of freedom and
civilization, by repeating that England "has always been our enemy." Then
they mention the Revolution, the War of 1812, and England's attitude
during our Civil War, just as they invariably mentioned these things in
1917 and 1918, when England was our ally in a struggle [or life, and as
they will be mentioning them in 1940, I presume, if they are still alive
at that time.
Now, the Civil War ended fifty-five years ago, the War of 1812 one
hundred and five, and the Revolution one hundred and thirty-seven.
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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 Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: other with your Faceny, it seems to me he must have a most
paradoxical nature. His essence doesn't start creating shapes until
it has become thoroughly weakened and watered.... But perhaps both of
us are talking nonsense."
Leehallfae shook aer head. "Everything hangs together. The stream
is life, and it is throwing off sparks of life all the time. When
these sparks are caught and imprisoned by matter, they become living
shapes. The nearer the stream is to its source, the more terrible
and vigorous is its life. You'll see for yourself when we reach the
head of the valley that there are no living shapes there at all.
That means that there is no kind of matter touch enough to capture
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