| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri: manifestly exaggerated outcome of classical and individualist
theories, which can only see a ``victim of authority'' in every
accused person, and in every condemned person also.
Another point is that of acquittal in case of an equality of
votes, especially where born and habitual criminals are concerned.
I think it would be much more reasonable to restore the verdict of
``not proven,'' which the Romans admitted under the form of ``non
liquet,'' as an alternative to ``absolvo'' and ``condemno,'' and
which may be delivered by juries in Scotland. Every one who has
been put on his trial is entitled to have his innocence declared,
it it has been actually proved. But if the proofs remain
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: moves up or down the channel, is cutting the magnetic curves of the
earth, whilst the other is relatively at rest.... There is every
reason to believe that currents do run in the general direction of
the circuit described, either one way or the other, according as the
passage of the waters is up or down the channel.' This was written
before the submarine cable was thought of, and he once informed me
that actual observation upon that cable had been found to be in
accordance with his theoretic deduction.[1]
Three years subsequent to the publication of these researches--
that is to say, on January 29, 1835--Faraday read before the Royal
Society a paper 'On the influence by induction of an electric
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: the dullness of everything around them threw a real gloom over
their domestic circle; and, though Kitty might in time regain her
natural degree of sense, since the disturbers of her brain were
removed, her other sister, from whose disposition greater evil
might be apprehended, was likely to be hardened in all her folly
and assurance by a situation of such double danger as a
watering-place and a camp. Upon the whole, therefore, she
found, what has been sometimes been found before, that an
event to which she had been looking with impatient desire did
not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised
herself. It was consequently necessary to name some other
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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 Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum: my enemies. If they've kicked you out of your kingdom, that's your
affair--not mine."
"Wouldn't you like to be king of that splendid fairyland?"
asked Ruggedo.
"Yes, I would," replied Kiki Aru; "but you want to be king yourself,
and we would quarrel over it."
"No," said the Nome, trying to deceive him. "I don't care to be
King of Oz, come to think it over. I don't even care to live in that
country. What I want first is revenge. If we can conquer Oz, I'll
get enough magic then to conquer my own Kingdom of the Nomes, and I'll
go back and live in my underground caverns, which are more home-like
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