| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton: there. We've counted up, and he ain't got the money to do it--
that's all."
"But I thought he was going right into a splendid place."
"So he is; but the salary's pretty low the first year, and
board's very high in St. Louis. He's jest got another letter from
his German friend, and he's been figuring it out, and he's afraid
to chance it. He'll have to go alone."
"But there's your money--have you forgotten that? The hundred
dollars in the bank."
Evelina made an impatient movement. "Of course I ain't
forgotten it. On'y it ain't enough. It would all have to go into
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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: population has increased thirty-one-fold, within the same space
of time. *n
[Footnote m: The following statements will suffice to show the
difference which exists between the commerce of the South and
that of the North: -
In 1829 the tonnage of all the merchant vessels belonging to
Virginia, the two Carolinas, and Georgia (the four great Southern
States), amounted to only 5,243 tons. In the same year the
tonnage of the vessels of the State of Massachusetts alone
amounted to 17,322 tons. (See Legislative Documents, 21st
Congress, 2d session, No. 140, p. 244.) Thus the State of
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