| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: "And, by Jove, it's about our only chance! I didn't dream."
I turned on him. "I've been up in the air," I said.
"Heaven knows where I haven't been. And here's our only
chance--and you give it to that adventurous lunatic to play in
his own way--in a brig!"
"Well, you had a voice--"
"I wish I'd been in this before. We ought to have run out a
steamer to Lagos or one of those West Coast places and done it
from there. Fancy a brig in the channel at this time of year, if
it blows southwest!"
"I dessay you'd have shoved it, George. Still you know,
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Proposed Roads To Freedom by Bertrand Russell: pose at first sight? If work were to remain what
most work is now, no doubt it would be very hard to
induce people to undertake it except from fear of
destitution. But there is no reason why work should
remain the dreary drudgery in horrible conditions
that most of it is now.[43] If men had to be tempted to
work instead of driven to it, the obvious interest of
the community would be to make work pleasant. So
long as work is not made on the whole pleasant, it
cannot be said that anything like a good state of
society has been reached. Is the painfulness of work
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