| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: person he could reach. An unembarrassed young man who wants to know
and does not promise to bore may reach almost any one in that way,
he is as impersonal as pure reason and as mobile as a letter, but
the presence of a lady in his train leaves him no longer
unembarrassed. His approach has become a social event. The wife of
a great or significant personage must take notice or decide not to
take notice. Of course Amanda was prepared to go anywhere, just as
Benham's shadow; it was the world that was unprepared. And a second
leading aspect of his original scheme had been the examination of
the ways of government in cities and the shifting and mixture of
nations and races. It would have led to back streets, and involved
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from King James Bible: cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and we are called
by thy name; leave us not.
JER 14:10 Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to
wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not
accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
JER 14:11 Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for
their good.
JER 14:12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they
offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will
consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
JER 14:13 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say unto
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