| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson: opened, Selden and his men could be seen riding briskly, still bent
upon Sir Daniel's mission. The wind had somewhat fallen, but still
tussled merrily with the trees, and, perhaps, had Appleyard been
there, he would have drawn a warning from the troubled conduct of
the birds.
"Now, mark," Dick whispered. "They be already well advanced into
the wood; their safety lieth rather in continuing forward. But see
ye where this wide glade runneth down before us, and in the midst
of it, these two score trees make like an island? There were their
safety. An they but come sound as far as that, I will make shift
to warn them. But my heart misgiveth me; they are but seven
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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 Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: liberties of our age. The general principles which are the
groundwork of modern constitutions - principles which were
imperfectly known in Europe, and not completely triumphant even
in Great Britain, in the seventeenth century - were all
recognized and determined by the laws of New England: the
intervention of the people in public affairs, the free voting of
taxes, the responsibility of authorities, personal liberty, and
trial by jury, were all positively established without
discussion. From these fruitful principles consequences have
been derived and applications have been made such as no nation in
Europe has yet ventured to attempt.
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