| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Euthydemus by Plato: complain. Tell me, then, you two, do you not know some things, and not
know others?
Certainly not, Socrates, said Dionysodorus.
What do you mean, I said; do you know nothing?
Nay, he replied, we do know something.
Then, I said, you know all things, if you know anything?
Yes, all things, he said; and that is as true of you as of us.
O, indeed, I said, what a wonderful thing, and what a great blessing! And
do all other men know all things or nothing?
Certainly, he replied; they cannot know some things, and not know others,
and be at the same time knowing and not knowing.
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: which had in a way become sacred to him through its mem-
ories, without a growl or anger rising to his lips. There re-
mained, then, but the one way, since he could not desert them.
He must move by slow and irksome marches back to the east
coast, or at least to the first white settlement in that
direction.
He had, it is true, contemplated leaving the girl to her fate
but that was before she had been instrumental in saving him
from torture and death at the hands of the black Wamabos.
He chafed under the obligation she had put upon him, but no
less did he acknowledge it and as he watched the two, the
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