| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: book of Messer Petrarca's poems. It had been Gutierrez's,
who left it behind when he broke forth to the mountains.
Beltran's voice suddenly ceased. Diego the archer above
him on wall had cried down, ``Hush, will you, a moment!''
Diego de Arana came up. ``What is it?''
``I thought,'' said the archer, ``that I heard a strange
shouting from toward village. Hark ye! There!''
We heard it, a confused sound. ``Call in the men from
the river!'' Arana ordered.
Diego Minas sent his voice down the slope. The three
below by the river also heard the commotion, distant as
|
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from In Darkest England and The Way Out by General William Booth: which would make our agricultural labourers turn up their noses in
speechless contempt, I cannot but think that our English soil could
carry a far greater number of souls to the acre than that which it
bears at present. Suppose, for instance, that Essex were suddenly to
find itself unmoored from its English anchorage and towed across the
Channel to Normandy, or, not to imagine miracles, suppose that an
Armada of Chinese were to make a descent on the Isle of Thanet, as did
the sea-kings, Hengist and Horsa, does anyone imagine for a moment that
Kent, fertile and cultivated as it is, would not be regarded as a very
Garden of Eden out of the odd corners of which our yellow-skinned
invaders would contrive to extract sufficient to keep themselves in
In Darkest England and The Way Out |
