| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: nor would she should we have fallen into her hands. It is
only the men of her kind who war upon us, and I have ever
thought that their attitude toward us is but the reflection
of ours toward them. They live at peace with all their fellows,
except when duty calls upon them to make war, while we
are at peace with none; forever warring among our own
kind as well as upon the red men, and even in our own
communities the individuals fight amongst themselves.
Oh, it is one continual, awful period of bloodshed from the
time we break the shell until we gladly embrace the bosom of
the river of mystery, the dark and ancient Iss which carries us
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Eve and David by Honore de Balzac: before his judges. The inventor's pride in the discovery so nearly
completed left no room for any other feelings.
At seven o'clock that evening, while Mme. du Chatelet, pleading a sick
headache, had gone to her room in her unhappiness over the rumors of
Lucien's departure; while M. de Comte, left to himself, was
entertaining his guests at dinner--the tall Cointet and his stout
brother, accompanied by Petit-Claud, opened negotiations with the
competitor who had delivered himself up, bound hand and foot.
A difficulty awaited them at the outset. How was it possible to draw
up a deed of partnership unless they knew David's secret? And if David
divulged his secret, he would be at the mercy of the Cointets. Petit-
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: I am your accessary; and so farewell.
BERTRAM.
I grow to you, and our parting is a tortured body.
FIRST LORD.
Farewell, captain.
SECOND LORD.
Sweet Monsieur Parolles!
PAROLLES.
Noble heroes, my sword and yours are kin. Good sparks and
lustrous, a word, good metals.--You shall find in the regiment of
the Spinii one Captain Spurio, with his cicatrice, an emblem of
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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 Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: hidden deficiency. Probably no more hopeless mistake could be made by an
ascetic seeking to extirpate sex emotion and the attraction of the sexes
for one another, than were he to imagine that in increasing virility,
intelligence, and knowledge this end could be attained. He might thereby
differentiate and greatly concentrate the emotions, but they would be
intensified; as a widely spread, shallow, sluggish stream would not be
annihilated but increased in force and activity by being turned into a
sharply defined, clear-cut course.
And if, further, we turn to those secondary manifestations of sexual
emotion, which express themselves in the relations of human progenitors to
their offspring, we shall find, if possible more markedly, that increase of
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