| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Essays & Lectures by Oscar Wilde: then, I have been through your country to some fifty or sixty
different cities, I think. I find that what your people need is
not so much high imaginative art but that which hallows the vessels
of everyday use. I suppose that the poet will sing and the artist
will paint regardless whether the world praises or blames. He has
his own world and is independent of his fellow-men. But the
handicraftsman is dependent on your pleasure and opinion. He needs
your encouragement and he must have beautiful surroundings. Your
people love art but do not sufficiently honour the handicraftsman.
Of course, those millionaires who can pillage Europe for their
pleasure need have no care to encourage such; but I speak for those
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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 Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: sense, ye dogs," cries Will; "do you not see that you are but fifty
strong to our twenty?" Whereon up the side he scrambled, and the
captain fired a pistol at him. Cary knocked him over, unwilling to
shed needless blood; on which all the crew yielded, some falling on
their knees, some leaping overboard; and the prize was taken.
In the meanwhile, Amyas had pulled round under her stern, and
boarded the boat which was second from her, for the nearest was
fast alongside, and so a sure prize. The Spaniards in her yielded
without a blow, crying "Misericordia;" and the negroes, leaping
overboard, swam ashore like sea-dogs. Meanwhile, the third boat,
which was not an oar's length off, turned to pull away. Whereby
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