| 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: rents,[24] and let the real slave go free. Where you have wealthy
slaves it ceases to be advantageous that my slave should stand in awe
of you. In Lacedaemon my slave stands in awe of you.[25] But if your
slave is in awe of me there will be a risk of his giving away his own
moneys to avoid running a risk in his own person. It is for this
reason then that we have established an equality between our slaves
and free men; and again between our resident aliens and full
citizens,[26] because the city stands in need of her resident aliens
to meet the requirements of such a multiplicity of arts and for the
purposes of her navy. That is, I repeat, the justification for the
equality conferred upon our resident aliens.
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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 Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson: `Save for that broken music in thy brains,
Sir Fool,' said Tristram, `I would break thy head.
Fool, I came too late, the heathen wars were o'er,
The life had flown, we sware but by the shell--
I am but a fool to reason with a fool--
Come, thou art crabbed and sour: but lean me down,
Sir Dagonet, one of thy long asses' ears,
And harken if my music be not true.
`"Free love--free field--we love but while we may:
The woods are hushed, their music is no more:
The leaf is dead, the yearning past away:
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