| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: Marchen," so much more fully and strongly and purely, that you
will feel that novels and story-books are scarcely worth your
reading, as long as you can read the great green book, of which
every bud is a letter, and every tree a page.
Wonder if you will. You cannot wonder too much. That you might
wonder all your life long, God put you into this wondrous world,
and gave you that faculty of wonder which he has not given to the
brutes; which is at once the mother of sound science, and a pledge
of immortality in a world more wondrous even than this. But
wonder at the right thing, not at the wrong; at the real miracles
and prodigies, not at the sham. Wonder not at the world of man.
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from To-morrow by Joseph Conrad: can't be Harry. Harry is coming to-morrow. Do
you hear? One day more," he babbled more ex-
citedly; "never you fear--Harry shall marry
you."
His voice rose very shrill and mad against the
regular deep soughing of the swell coiling heavily
about the outer face of the sea-wall.
"He will have to. I shall make him, or if not"
--he swore a great oath--"I'll cut him off with a
shilling to-morrow, and leave everything to you.
I shall. To you. Let him starve."
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