| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot: appearance of this new factor. At the time it was an entirely
unknown quantity. It is true that aircraft had been employed in
the Balkan and the Italo-Ottoman campaigns, but upon such a
limited scale as to afford no comprehensive idea of their
military value and possibilities.
The belligerents, therefore, were caught somewhat at a
disadvantage, and an appreciable period of time elapsed before
the significance of the aerial force could be appreciated, while
means of counter acting or nullifying its influences had to be
evolved simultaneously, and according to the exigencies of the
moment. At all events, the protagonists were somewhat loth to
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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 Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: incite the people against him. Never had Norman of
Torn laid violent hand upon a woman, and his cut-
throat band were under oath to respect and protect
the sex, on penalty of death.
As he watched the semi-profile of the lovely face
before him, something stirred in his heart which had
been struggling for expression for years. It was not love,
nor was it allied to love, but a deep longing for com-
panionship of such as she, and such as she represented.
Norman of Torn could not have translated this feeling
into words for he did not know, but it was the far faint
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