| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving: country. A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land,
and to pervade the very atmosphere. Some say that the place was
bewitched by a High German doctor, during the early days of the
settlement; others, that an old Indian chief, the prophet or
wizard of his tribe, held his powwows there before the country
was discovered by Master Hendrick Hudson. Certain it is, the
place still continues under the sway of some witching power, that
holds a spell over the minds of the good people, causing them to
walk in a continual reverie. They are given to all kinds of
marvelous beliefs; are subject to trances and visions, and
frequently see strange sights, and hear music and voices in the
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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 Economist by Xenophon: begging alms, or else he writes himself down a very fool.[17]
[12] Or, "this fair earth herself."
[13] Or, "earth our mother reveals her powers and her impotence."
[14] Lit. "of the good and the bad." Cf. Dem. "adv. Phorm." 918. 18.
[15] Lit. "no accuser of." Cf. Aesch. "Theb." 439.
[16] Reading, with Sauppe, {all' e georgia}, or if, with Jacobs, {e en
georgia argia}, transl. "as that of idleness in husbandry."
[17] Or, "if not, he must be entirely irrational." Cf. Plat. "Apol."
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Presently, Ischomachus proceeded: Now it is of prime importance,[18]
in reference to the profitableness or unprofitableness of agriculture,
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