The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson: run for it," she thought, smiling.
Archie overtook her like a man whose mind was made up.
"Miss Kirstie," he began.
"Miss Christina, if you please, Mr. Weir," she interrupted. "I canna
bear the contraction."
"You forget it has a friendly sound for me. Your aunt is an old friend
of mine, and a very good one. I hope we shall see much of you at
Hermiston?"
"My aunt and my sister-in-law doesna agree very well. Not that I have
much ado with it. But still when I'm stopping in the house, if I was to
be visiting my aunt, it would not look considerate-like."
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: strength of this condition rose and fell with, and was proportional
to, the strength of the acting magnet. It was not then any property
possessed permanently by the bismuth, and which merely required the
development of magnetism to act upon it, that caused the repulsion;
for then the repulsion would have been simply proportional to the
strength of the influencing magnet, whereas experiment proved it to
augment as the square of the strength. The capacity to be repelled
was therefore not inherent in the bismuth, but induced. So far an
identity of action was established between magnetic and diamagnetic
bodies. After this the deportment of magnetic bodies, 'normal' and
'abnormal'; crystalline, amorphous, and compressed, was compared
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