| 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: himself and plunge him into the worst of straits.
We must, also, find out of the horse shows any viciousness towards
other horses or towards human beings; also, whether he is skittish;[8]
such defects are apt to cause his owner trouble.
[8] Or, "very ticklish."
As to any reluctance on the horse's part to being bitted or mounted,
dancing and twisting about and the rest,[9] you will get a more exact
idea on this score, if, when he has gone through his work, you will
try and repeat the precise operations which he went through before you
began your ride. Any horse that having done his work shows a readiness
to undergo it all again, affords sufficient evidence thereby of spirit
On Horsemanship |
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 Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: Massachusetts, vol. ii. p. 494.]
[Footnote h: The council of the Governor is an elective body.]
A twofold tendency may be discerned in the American
constitutions, which impels the legislator to centralize the
legislative and to disperse the executive power. The township of
New England has in itself an indestructible element of
independence; and this distinct existence could only be
fictitiously introduced into the county, where its utility has
not been felt. But all the townships united have but one
representation, which is the State, the centre of the national
authority: beyond the action of the township and that of the
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