| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: like to try. You don't understand that."
He smiled.
"Well, since you will not marry me, may I inquire what your intentions are,
the plan you wrote of. You asked me to come and hear it, and I have come."
"I said, 'Come if you wish.' If you agree to it, well; if not, I marry on
Monday."
"Well?"
She was still looking beyond him at the fire.
"I cannot marry you," she said slowly, "because I cannot be tied; but if
you wish, you may take me away with you, and take care of me; then when we
do not love any more we can say good-bye. I will not go down country," she
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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: a total so enormous as seriously to affect the balance of the
war.
And these spurs and their retention are only the outward and
visible symbol of the obstinate resistance of the Anglican
intelligence to the clear logic of the present situation. It is
not only the external equipment of our leaders that falls behind
the times; our political and administrative services are in the
hands of the same desolatingly inadaptable class. The British
are still wearing spurs in Ireland; they are wearing them in
India; and the age of the spur has passed. At the outset of this
war there was an absolute cessation of criticism of the military
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