| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Vision Splendid by William MacLeod Raine: representatives were standing firm. As the weeks passed the fight
grew more bitter. Now and again men fell by the wayside disgraced.
But the pressure from their constituents was so strong that Jeff
believed his bill would go through.
His friends forced it through the committee and pushed it to a
vote. House Bill 33, as the initiative and referendum amendment
was called, passed the lower legislative body with a small
majority. The pool rooms offered five to four that it would carry
in the senate.
It was on the night of the twenty-first of December that the
amendment passed the House. On the morning of the twenty-third the
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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 The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: develop more early in the richer classes, owing to that severe
discipline of our public schools, which makes mere lads often fit to
govern, because they have learnt to obey: while they develop later-
-generally not till middle age--in the classes who have not gone
through in their youth that Spartan training, and who indeed (from a
mistaken conception of liberty) would not endure it for a day. This
and other social drawbacks which are but too patent, retard the
manhood of the working classes. That it should be so, is a wrong.
For if a citizen have one right above all others to demand anything
of his country, it is that he should be educated; that whatever
capabilities he may have in him, however small, should have their
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