| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the thwart; a little red cotton tunic with hose to match,
a black doublet and a tiny leather jerkin and leather
cap.
The discarded clothing of the Prince he wrapped
about a huge stone torn from the disintegrating masonry
of the river wall, and consigned the bundle to the voice-
less river.
The Prince had by now regained some of his for-
mer assurance, and, finding that De Vac seemed not to
intend harming him, the little fellow commenced ques-
tioning his grim companion, his childish wonder at this
The Outlaw of Torn |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Theaetetus by Plato: to fit this into its own print: if I succeed, recognition will take place;
but if I fail and transpose them, putting the foot into the wrong shoe--
that is to say, putting the vision of either of you on to the wrong
impression, or if my mind, like the sight in a mirror, which is transferred
from right to left, err by reason of some similar affection, then
'heterodoxy' and false opinion ensues.
THEAETETUS: Yes, Socrates, you have described the nature of opinion with
wonderful exactness.
SOCRATES: Or again, when I know both of you, and perceive as well as know
one of you, but not the other, and my knowledge of him does not accord with
perception--that was the case put by me just now which you did not
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