| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: and from hunting upwards were taught many noble arts."
[24] Lit. "is beheld by his beloved." Cf. "Symp." iv. 4; viii. 31.
[25] Lit. "in order not to be seen of him."
[26] Lit. "good with respect to her."
[27] Or, "to those toils and that training."
XIII
Now what astonishes me in the "sophists," as they are called,[1] is,
that though they profess, the greater part of them, to lead the young
to virtue, they really lead them in the opposite direction. Never have
we set eyes on the man anywhere who owed his goodness to the sophists
of to-day.[2] Nor do their writings contain anything[3] calculated to
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Firm of Nucingen by Honore de Balzac: is to hold a brood of young birds by and by. Isaure's bridegroom had
taken a house in the Rue de la Plancher at a thousand crowns, a
comfortable little house neither too large nor too small, which suited
them. Every morning he went round to take a look at the workmen and to
superintend the painters. He had introduced 'comfort' (the only good
thing in England)--heating apparatus to maintain an even temperature
all over the house; fresh, soft colors, carefully chosen furniture,
neither too showy nor too much in fashion; spring-blinds fitted to
every window inside and out; silver plate and new carriages. He had
seen to the stables, coach-house, and harness-room, where Toby Joby
Paddy floundered and fidgeted about like a marmot let loose,
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