| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Vision Splendid by William MacLeod Raine: on the surface still."
Jeff did some rapid thinking. "Then the program will be for us to
nominate a weak ticket and elect Big Tim's by default. Is that
it?"
"That's about it. The big fellows have to make sure of a Mayor who
will be all right about the Gas and Electric franchise. So we're
going to have four more years of Big Tim."
"Will Brownell stand for it?"
Brownell was the principal owner of the _Advocate._
"Will he?" Warren let his eyelash rest for a second upon the
cheek nearest Jeff. "He's been seen. My orders come direct from
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: earnest shape. Dropping, very soon, that Lockite and Philosophe
tone which had perhaps recommended it to Frederick the Great in his
youth, it became mediaevalist and mystic. It craved after a
resuscitation of old chivalrous spirit, and the virtues of the
knightly ideal, and the old German biederkeit und tapferkeit, which
were all defiled and overlaid by French fopperies. And not in vain;
as no struggle after a noble aim, however confused or fantastic, is
ever in vain. Freemasonry was the direct parent of the Tugenbund,
and of those secret societies which freed Germany from Napoleon.
Whatever follies young members of them may have committed; whatever
Jahn and his Turnerei; whatever the iron youths, with their iron
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