| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: the room as if to seek something that I had lost.
After an interval I arose, and as if by instinct, crawled into the room
where the corpse of my beloved lay. There were women weeping around;
I hung over it and joined my sad tears to theirs; all this time no
distinct idea presented itself to my mind, but my thoughts rambled
to various subjects, reflecting confusedly on my misfortunes and their cause.
I was bewildered, in a cloud of wonder and horror. The death of William,
the execution of Justine, the murder of Clerval, and lastly of my wife;
even at that moment I knew not that my only remaining friends were safe
from the malignity of the fiend; my father even now might be writhing
under his grasp, and Ernest might be dead at his feet. This idea made me
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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 Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: commonwealth before they have learnt to govern themselves. *f
[Footnote f: This indeed is only a temporary danger. I have no
doubt that in time society will assume as much stability and
regularity in the West as it has already done upon the coast of
the Atlantic Ocean.]
The greater the individual weakness of each of the
contracting parties, the greater are the chances of the duration
of the contract; for their safety is then dependent upon their
union. When, in 1790, the most populous of the American
republics did not contain 500,000 inhabitants, *g each of them
felt its own insignificance as an independent people, and this
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