| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the slightest indication of the beast had been apparent.
As I crept closer to the antelope, sure this time of a good
shot at a large buck, I suddenly saw something that caused
me to forget all about my prey in wonderment.
It was the figure of an immense grey-black creature, rearing
its colossal shoulders twelve or fourteen feet above the
ground. Never in my life had I seen such a beast, nor did I
at first recognize it, so different in appearance is the
live reality from the stuffed, unnatural specimens preserved
to us in our museums.
But presently I guessed the identity of the mighty creature
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: steps of the transformation are obscure; they seem, at least, to
have been ill-received at Salt Lake; and there is evidence to the
effect that he was followed to the islands by Mormon assassins.
His first attempt on politics was made under the auspices of what
is called the missionary party, and the canvass conducted largely
(it is said with tears) on the platform at prayer-meetings. It
resulted in defeat. Without any decency of delay he changed his
colours, abjured the errors of reform, and, with the support of the
Catholics, rose to the chief power. In a very brief interval he
had thus run through the gamut of religions in the South Seas. It
does not appear that he was any more particular in politics, but he
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