| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: daughter, upon a question so highly important.
The result of this interview and deliberation was favourable to
Menteith. Sir Duncan Campbell became fully sensible that the
happiness of his new-found daughter depended upon a union with
her lover; and unless such were now formed, he saw that Argyle
would throw a thousand obstacles in the way of a match in every
respect acceptable to himself. Menteith's private character was
so excellent, and such was the rank and consideration due to his
fortune and family, that they outbalanced, in Sir Duncan's
opinion, the difference in their political opinions. Nor could
he have resolved, perhaps, had his own opinion of the match been
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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 Soul of Man by Oscar Wilde: wealthy young man who comes to Jesus is represented as a thoroughly
good citizen, who has broken none of the laws of his state, none of
the commandments of his religion. He is quite respectable, in the
ordinary sense of that extraordinary word. Jesus says to him, 'You
should give up private property. It hinders you from realising
your perfection. It is a drag upon you. It is a burden. Your
personality does not need it. It is within you, and not outside of
you, that you will find what you really are, and what you really
want.' To his own friends he says the same thing. He tells them
to be themselves, and not to be always worrying about other things.
What do other things matter? Man is complete in himself. When
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