| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: of a third person to be wanted. Such invidious distinctions of
identity apparently never thrust their presence upon the simple
early Tartar minds. I, you, and he, not being differences due to
nature, demanded, to their thinking, no recognition of man.
There is about this vagueness of expression a freedom not without its
charm. It is certainly delightful to be able to speak of yourself
as if you were somebody else, choosing mentally for the occasion any
one you may happen to fancy, or, it you prefer, the possibility of
soaring boldly forth into the realms of the unconditioned.
To us, at first sight, however, such a lack of specification appears
wofully incompatible with any intelligible transmission of ideas.
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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 Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri: which imprisonment for young persons should always be excluded.
We must therefore abolish the so-called houses of correction; for,
taking no account of the absurd and dangerous confusion created by
the three classes of children committed for paternal correction,
for begging and vagrancy, and for offences, no good can ever come
of it, for the herding and crowding together are nowhere more
productive of fermentation and putrefaction than amongst the
young.
There is nothing for them but separate boarding-out with families
of honest country folk, or else agricultural colonies with a
discipline different from that of the colonies for adult
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