The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Philebus by Plato: PROTARCHUS: What am I to infer?
SOCRATES: That in such cases pleasures and pains come simultaneously; and
there is a juxtaposition of the opposite sensations which correspond to
them, as has been already shown.
PROTARCHUS: Clearly.
SOCRATES: And there is another point to which we have agreed.
PROTARCHUS: What is it?
SOCRATES: That pleasure and pain both admit of more and less, and that
they are of the class of infinites.
PROTARCHUS: Certainly, we said so.
SOCRATES: But how can we rightly judge of them?
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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 Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: lifted his fist fiercely.
Oxenham looked at him a minute smilingly. "Tut! tut! my man, hit
one of your own size, if you will, and spare little folk like me!"
"If I have a boy's age, sir, I have a man's fist. I shall be
fifteen years old this month, and know how to answer any one who
insults me."
"Fifteen, my young cockerel? you look liker twenty," said Oxenham,
with an admiring glance at the lad's broad limbs, keen blue eyes,
curling golden locks, and round honest face. "Fifteen? If I had
half-a-dozen such lads as you, I would make knights of them before
I died. Eh, Yeo?"
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