| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Koran: lose.
Is it not shown to those who inherit the earth after its (former)
people, that, did we please, we would smite them in their sins, and
would set a stamp upon their hearts, and then they should not hear?
These cities, we do relate to thee their stories. There came to them
our apostles with manifest signs; but they did not at all believe in
what they called a lie before.- Thus doth God set a stamp upon the
hearts of those who misbelieve.
Nor did we find in most of them a covenant; but we did find most
of them workers of abomination.
Then we raised up after them Moses with our signs to Pharaoh and his
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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 American by Henry James: You are perfectly serious?"
"Am I a Frenchman, that I should not be?" asked Newman.
"But why is it, by the bye, that you should be horrified?"
Bellegarde raised his hand to the back of his head and rubbed his hair
quickly up and down, thrusting out the tip of his tongue as he did so.
"Why, you are not noble, for instance," he said.
"The devil I am not!" exclaimed Newman.
"Oh," said Bellegarde a little more seriously, "I did not know
you had a title."
"A title? What do you mean by a title?" asked Newman.
"A count, a duke, a marquis? I don't know anything about that,
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