| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson: way up, when a voice cried upon me to stand.
I was at the edge of the upper wood, and so now, when I halted
and looked back, I saw all the open part of the hill below me.
The lawyer and the sheriff's officer were standing just above the
road, crying and waving on me to come back; and on their left,
the red-coats, musket in hand, were beginning to struggle singly
out of the lower wood.
"Why should I come back?" I cried. "Come you on!"
"Ten pounds if ye take that lad!" cried the lawyer. "He's an
accomplice. He was posted here to hold us in talk."
At that word (which I could hear quite plainly, though it was to
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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 The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: easier than to till the ground at home. Then as the Spaniards,
exemplifying the military superiority of the feudal over the
sultanic form of social organization, proceeded steadily to
recover dominion over the land, the industrious Moors, instead of
migrating backward before the advance of their conquerors,
remained at home and submitted to them. Thus Spanish society
became compounded of two distinct castes,--the Moorish Spaniards,
who were skilled labourers, and the Gothic Spaniards, by whom all
labour, crude or skilful, was deemed the stigma of a conquered
race, and unworthy the attention of respectable people. As Mr.
Motley concisely says:--
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