| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Off on a Comet by Jules Verne: "I must take care of my head, then, and hold it on,"
replied the irrepressible orderly.
Unable to get the last word, the professor was about to retire,
when Servadac detained him.
"Permit me to ask you one more question," he said.
"Can you tell me what is the nature of the soil of Gallia?"
"Yes, I can answer that. And in this matter I do not think your
impertinent orderly will venture to put Montmartre into the comparison.
This soil is of a substance not unknown upon the earth."
And speaking very slowly, the professor said: "It contains 70 per cent.
of tellurium, and 30 per cent. of gold."
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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 Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: the foreground: Caliban Malvolio. And it seems to me as if,
in the persons of these brothers-in-law, we had the two sides
of rusticity fairly well represented: the hunter living
really in nature; the clodhopper living merely out of
society: the one bent up in every corporal agent to capacity
in one pursuit, doing at least one thing keenly and
thoughtfully, and thoroughly alive to all that touches it;
the other in the inert and bestial state, walking in a faint
dream, and taking so dim an impression of the myriad sides of
life that he is truly conscious of nothing but himself. It
is only in the fastnesses of nature, forests, mountains, and
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