| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from First Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln: never recanted them. And, more than this, they placed in the
platform for my acceptance, and as a law to themselves and to me,
the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read:
"Resolved: that the maintenance inviolate
of the rights of the States, and especially
the right of each State to order and control
its own domestic institutions according to
its own judgment exclusively, is essential
to that balance of power on which the perfection
and endurance of our political fabric depend,
and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: Beyond the small evils, which she seeks by her immediate, personal action
to remedy, lie, she feels; large ills of which they form but an off-shoot;
beyond the small good which she seeks to effect, lies, she believes, a
great and universal beatitude to be attained; beyond the little struggle of
today, lies the larger struggle of the centuries, in which neither she
alone nor her sex alone are concerned, but all mankind.
That such should be the mental attitude of the average woman taking part in
the readjustive sexual movement of today; that so often on the public
platform and in literature adduces merely secondary arguments, and is
wholly unable logically to give an account of the great propelling
conditions behind it, is sometimes taken as an indication of the
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