| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the barons' army set out from its camp at Fletching,
nine miles from Lewes, and, marching through dense
forests, reached a point two miles from the city, un-
observed.
From here they ascended the great ridge of the hills
up the valley Combe, the projecting shoulder of the
Downs covering their march from the town. The King's
party, however, had no suspicion that an attack was
imminent, and, in direct contrast to the methods of
the baronial troops, had spent the preceding night
in drunken revelry, so that they were quite taken by
The Outlaw of Torn |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Lesser Hippias by Plato: Is he not the good man? For the good man is the able man, and he is the
true man.
HIPPIAS: That is evident.
SOCRATES: Do you not see, then, that the same man is false and also true
about the same matters? And the true man is not a whit better than the
false; for indeed he is the same with him and not the very opposite, as you
were just now imagining.
HIPPIAS: Not in that instance, clearly.
SOCRATES: Shall we examine other instances?
HIPPIAS: Certainly, if you are disposed.
SOCRATES: Are you not also skilled in geometry?
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