| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: roused from her attitude of inspired vision and breathed to
Carol, "My! That was sweet! Of course Raymond hasn't
an unusually good voice, but don't you think he puts such
a lot of feeling into it?"
Carol lied blackly and magnificently, but without originality:
"Oh yes, I do think he has so much FEELING!"
She saw that after the strain of listening in a cultured
manner the audience had collapsed; had given up their last hope
of being amused. She cried, "Now we're going to play an
idiotic game which I learned in Chicago. You will have to
take off your shoes, for a starter! After that you will probably
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: When an experimental result was obtained by Faraday it was instantly
enlarged by his imagination. I am acquainted with no mind whose
power and suddenness of expansion at the touch of new physical truth
could be ranked with his. Sometimes I have compared the action of
his experiments on his mind to that of highly combustible matter
thrown into a furnace; every fresh entry of fact was accompanied by
the immediate development of light and heat. The light, which was
intellectual, enabled him to see far beyond the boundaries of the
fact itself, and the heat, which was emotional, urged him to the
conquest of this newly-revealed domain. But though the force of his
imagination was enormous, he bridled it like a mighty rider, and
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