| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from King James Bible: straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
JOH 1:24 And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.
JOH 1:25 And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou
then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?
JOH 1:26 John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there
standeth one among you, whom ye know not;
JOH 1:27 He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose
shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
JOH 1:28 These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John
was baptizing.
JOH 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith,
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from One Basket by Edna Ferber: prettiness and the twine hammock to work with. But Flora, with
her beauty, captured H. Charnsworth Baldwin. Chippewa gasped.
H. Charnsworth Baldwin drove a skittish mare to a high-wheeled
yellow runabout; had his clothes made at Proctor Brothers in
Milwaukee; and talked about a game called golf. It was he who
advocated laying out a section of land for what he called links,
and erecting a clubhouse thereon.
"The section of the bluff overlooking the river," he explained,
"is full of natural hazards, besides having a really fine
view."
Chippewa--or that comfortable, middle-class section of it which
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