| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin: and have likewise regarded the appearance of others. The face has
been the chief object of attention, though, when man aboriginally
went naked, the whole surface of his body would have been attended to.
Our self-attention is excited almost exclusively by the opinion of others,
for no person living in absolute solitude would care about his appearance.
Every one feels blame more acutely than praise. Now, whenever we know,
or suppose, that others are depreciating our personal appearance,
our attention is strongly drawn towards ourselves, more especially
to our faces. The probable effect of this will be, as has just
been explained, to excite into activity that part of the sensorium,
which receives the sensory nerves of the face; and this will
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: job, he will do things he would not under other circumstances.'
'Are you willing to work?'
Alick swore he was burning to be useful.
'And what can you do?' asked the captain.
He replied composedly that he was a brass-fitter by trade.
'I think you will be better at engineering?' suggested the officer,
with a shrewd look.
'No, sir,' says Alick simply. - 'There's few can beat me at a lie,'
was his engaging commentary to me as he recounted the affair.
'Have you been to sea?' again asked the captain.
'I've had a trip on a Clyde steamboat, sir, but no more,' replied the
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