| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde: pause.] You don't think there is any chance of Gwendolen becoming
like her mother in about a hundred and fifty years, do you, Algy?
ALGERNON. All women become like their mothers. That is their
tragedy. No man does. That's his.
JACK. Is that clever?
ALGERNON. It is perfectly phrased! and quite as true as any
observation in civilised life should be.
JACK. I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever
nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people.
The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to
goodness we had a few fools left.
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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 Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: derived from some animal and ape-like creature. Of that I am not
going to speak now. My subject is: How this creature called man,
from whatever source derived, became civilised, rational, and moral.
And I am sorry to say that there is tacked on by many to the first
theory, another which does not follow from it, and which has really
nothing to do with it, and it is this: That man, with all his
wonderful and mysterious aspirations, always unfulfilled yet always
precious, at once his torment and his joy, his very hope of
everlasting life; that man, I say, developed himself, unassisted,
out of a state of primaeval brutishness, simply by calculations of
pleasure and pain, by observing what actions would pay in the long
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