| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Dust by Mr. And Mrs. Haldeman-Julius: "I must be a fool, a great, pathetic fool. I look into a girl's
eyes and immediately see visions. I say a few words to her and
she is kind enough to say a few to me and I see pictures of new
happiness. I should have more sense. I don't know what is the
matter with me."
Although countless answers leaped to his wife's tongue she made
none but the cryptic: "Well, it's no use to discuss it any more
tonight. We both need rest." But all the while that she was
undressing with her usual sure, swift movements, and after she
had finally slipped between the sheets, her mind was racing.
She was soon borne so completely out on the current of her own
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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 Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: being life itself upon the world, a special phase of it
dependent upon and connected with all other phases, and of
being one of a small but growing number of people who
apprehend that, and want to live in the spirit of that, is
quite central. It is my fundamental idea. We,--this small
but growing minority--constitute that part of life which
knows and wills and tries to rule its destiny. This new
realization, the new psychology arising out of it is a fact
of supreme importance in the history of life. It is like the
appearance of self-consciousness in some creature that has
not hitherto had self-consciousness. And so far as we are
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