| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: the doors of his own office. And the effect of the initial blunder
was kept alive by the chatter of the clerks in bar-rooms, boasting
themselves of the new government and prophesying annihilation to
all rivals. The time of raising a tax is the harvest of the
merchants; it is the time when copra will be made, and must be
sold; and the intention of the German firm, first in the time of
Steinberger, and again in April and May, 1888, with Brandeis, was
to seize and handle the whole operation. Their chief rivals were
the Messrs. MacArthur; and it seems beyond question that provincial
governors more than once issued orders forbidding Samoans to take
money from "the New Zealand firm." These, when they were brought
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from King James Bible: the commandment of God by your tradition?
MAT 15:4 For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and,
He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
MAT 15:5 But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother,
It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;
MAT 15:6 And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free.
Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your
tradition.
MAT 15:7 Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,
MAT 15:8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and
honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
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