| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens: There are many against you, but we'll be a match for them, never
fear!'
'What's that?' said Lord George--pointing to the raven who was
peeping out of the stable-door--but still looking thoughtfully, and
in some perplexity, it seemed, at Barnaby.
'Why, don't you know!' retorted Barnaby, with a wondering laugh.
'Not know what HE is! A bird, to be sure. My bird--my friend--
Grip.'
'A devil, a kettle, a Grip, a Polly, a Protestant, no Popery!'
cried the raven.
'Though, indeed,' added Barnaby, laying his hand upon the neck of
Barnaby Rudge |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: plight in the region. In which case these particular Albanians
will either be driven into exile to America or they will be
goaded to revolt, which will be followed no doubt by the punitive
procedure usual in the Balkan peninsula.
For my third instance I would step from a matter as small as
three market towns and the grazing of a few thousand head of
sheep to a matter as big as the world. What is going to happen
to the shipping of the world after this war? The Germans, with
that combination of cunning and stupidity which baffles the rest
of mankind, have set themselves to destroy the mercantile marine
not merely of Britain and France but of Norway and Sweden,
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