| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne: But they had not forgotten themselves more than a quarter of an
hour, when Barbicane sat up suddenly, and rousing his companions
with a loud voice, exclaimed----
"I have found it!"
"What have you found?" asked Michel Ardan, jumping from his bed.
"The reason why we did not hear the detonation of the Columbiad."
"And it is----?" said Nicholl.
"Because our projectile traveled faster than the sound!"
CHAPTER III
THEIR PLACE OF SHELTER
This curious but certainly correct explanation once given, the
From the Earth to the Moon |
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: time fully enfranchise it. The element of physical force and capture which
dominated the most primitive sex relations, the more degrading element of
seduction and purchase by means of wealth or material good offered to woman
in our modern societies, would then give place to the untrammelled action
of attraction and affection alone between the sexes, and sexual love, after
its long pilgrimage in the deserts, would be enabled to return at last, a
king crowned.
But, apart from the two classes of persons whose objection to the entrance
of woman to new fields of labour is based more or less instinctively on the
fear of personal loss, there is undoubtedly a small, if a very small,
number of sincere persons whose fear as to severance between the sexes to
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