| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: were strong their progeny would be found to be more vigorous.
And so again after marriage. In view of the fact that immoderate
intercourse is elsewhere permitted during the earlier period of
matrimony, he adopted a principle directly opposite. He laid it down
as an ordinance that a man should be ashamed to be seen visiting the
chamber of his wife, whether going in or coming out. When they did
meet under such restraint the mutual longing of these lovers could not
but be increased, and the fruit which might spring from such
intercourse would tend to be more robust than theirs whose affections
are cloyed by satiety. By a farther step in the same direction he
refused to allow marriages to be contracted[6] at any period of life
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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 Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: rooms. Old Amoore nearly cried.
'However, my dear, I made all my preparations in ample time,
but the fish didn't arrive - it never does - and I wanted Rene to
ride to Pevensey and bring it himself. He had gone over to Jerry,
of course, as he always used, unless I requested his presence
beforehand. I can't send for Rene every time I want him. He
should be there. Now, don't you ever do what I did, child,
because it's in the highest degree unladylike; but - but one of our
Woods runs up to Jerry's garden, and if you climb - it's ungenteel,
but I can climb like a kitten -there's an old hollow oak just above
the pigsty where you can hear and see everything below. Truthfully,
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