| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: best to stay the downward tendencies of the physique, and
therefore ultimately of the morale, in the coming generation of
English women.
I am sorry to say that, as yet, I hear of but one movement in this
direction among the promoters of the "higher education of women."
{8} I trust that the subject will be taken up methodically by
those gifted ladies, who have acquainted themselves, and are
labouring to acquaint other women, with the first principles of
health; and that they may avail to prevent the coming generations,
under the unwholesome stimulant of competitive examinations, and
so forth, from "developing" into so many Chinese--dwarfs--or
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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 Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: of a copy of this pamphlet through a friend. It is called
"Urgent Questions of Economic Construction."Gusev sets
out in detail the sort of opposition he had met, and
says: "The Anarchists, Social Revolutionaries and Mensheviks
have a clear, simple economic plan which the great masses
can understand: 'Go about your own business and work
freely for yourself in your own place.' They have a criticism
of labor mobilizations equally clear for the masses. They
say to them, 'They are putting Simeon in Peter's place, and
Peter in Simeon's. They are sending the men of Saratov to
dig the ground in the Government of Stavropol, and the
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