| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from On Horsemanship by Xenophon: everything the opposite to what we advise as appropriate in dealing
with an animal of high spirit.
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But possibly you are not content with a horse serviceable for war. You
want to find him him a showy, attractive animal, with a certain
grandeur of bearing. If so, you must abstain from pulling at his mouth
with the bit, or applying the spur and whip--methods commonly adopted
by people with a view to a fine effect, though, as a matter of fact,
they thereby achieve the very opposite of what they are aiming at.
That is to say, by dragging the mouth up they render the horse blind
instead of alive to what is in front of him; and what with spurring
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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 Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: yet arrest the drift of our western civilization towards
financial and commercial squalor and the social collapse that
must ensue inevitably on that. In view of the composition of
the Committee, the Majority Report is in itself an amazing
triumph of Sir Richmond's views; it is astonishing that he
was able to drive his opponents so far and then leave them
there securely advanced while he carried on the adherents he
had altogether won, including, of course, the labour
representatives, to the further altitudes of the Minority
Report.
After the Summer recess the Majority Report was discussed and
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