| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft: beguile the tedious moments of absence, by dwelling on the events
of her past life, that she sent him the memoirs which had been
written for her daughter, promising Jemima the perusal as soon as
he returned them.
CHAPTER 7
"ADDRESSING these memoirs to you, my child, uncertain whether I
shall ever have an opportunity of instructing you, many observations
will probably flow from my heart, which only a mother--a mother
schooled in misery, could make.
"The tenderness of a father who knew the world, might be great;
but could it equal that of a mother--of a mother, labouring under
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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 Rig Veda: eternal
end,
Even as the cows who poured forth every thing for man, Yea,
poured
forth all thing- for mankind.
6 Eager for riches, men have formed for thee this song, like
as a
skilful craftsman fashioneth a car, so have they wrought thee
to their
bliss;
Adorning thee, O Singer, like a generous steed for deeds of
The Rig Veda |
