The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: where the two correspondents intended to stop, if nothing
happened to make them alter their plans.
A hundred and twenty miles separated Novo-Saimsk
from the town of Ichim, and before eight o'clock the next
evening the distance could and should be accomplished if
no time was lost. In the opinion of the iemschiks, should
the travelers not be great lords or high functionaries, they
were worthy of being so, if it was only for their generosity
in the matter of "na vodkou."
On the afternoon of the next day, the 23rd of July, the
two carriages were not more than thirty versts from Ichim.
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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 Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: forms. She would practically become non-existent.)
It is exactly by these two classes of persons that the objection is raised
that the entrance of woman into the new fields of labour and her increased
freedom and intelligence will dislocate the relations of the sexes; and,
while from the purely personal standpoint, they are undoubtedly right,
viewing human society as a whole they are fundamentally wrong. The loss of
a small and unhealthy section will be the gain of human society as a whole.
In the male voluptuary of feeble intellect and unattractive individuality,
who depends for the gratification of his sexual instincts, not on his power
of winning and retaining the personal affection and admiration of woman,
but on her purchaseable condition, either in the blatantly barbarous field
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