| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: numero XII, polliceri milia armata L; totidem Nervios, qui maxime feri
inter ipsos habeantur longissimeque absint; XV milia Atrebates, Ambianos X
milia, Morinos XXV milia, Menapios VII milia, Caletos X milia, Veliocasses
et Viromanduos totidem, Atuatucos XVIIII milia; Condrusos, Eburones,
Caerosos, Paemanos, qui uno nomine Germani appellantur, arbitrari ad XL
milia.
Caesar Remos cohortatus liberaliterque oratione prosecutus omnem
senatum ad se convenire principumque liberos obsides ad se adduci iussit.
Quae omnia ab his diligenter ad diem facta sunt. Ipse Diviciacum Haeduum
magnopere cohortatus docet quanto opere rei publicae comnlunisque salutis
intersit manus hostium distineri, ne cum tanta multitudine uno tempore
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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 Oakdale Affair by Edgar Rice Burroughs: to the murder of Reginald Paynter.
Jonas Prim was too busy and too worried to pay any
attention to the Tribune or its editor. He already had
the best operative that the best detective agency in the
nearest metropolis could furnish. The man had come to
Oakdale, learned all that was to be learned there, and
forthwith departed.
This, then, will be about all concerning Oakdale for
the present. We must leave her to bury her own dead.
The sudden pressure of the knife point against the
breast of the Oskaloosa Kid awakened the youth with
The Oakdale Affair |
