| 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: was a Cant. People had been too busy quarrelling, fighting and
running away. There wasn't any digested experience of the ages at
all. Only the mis-remembered hankey-pankey of the Dead Old Man.
"Is this love-making a physical necessity for most men and women or
isn't it?" Prothero demanded. "There's a simple question enough,
and is there anything whatever in your confounded wisdom of the ages
to tell me yes or no? Can an ordinary celibate be as healthy and
vigorous as a mated man? Is a spinster of thirty-eight a healthy
human being? Can she be? I don't believe so. Then why in thunder
do we let her be? Here am I at a centre of learning and wisdom and
I don't believe so; and there is nothing in all our colleges,
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: Without some glimmering in my heart,
I could not raise this fervent prayer;
But, oh! a stronger light impart,
And in Thy mercy fix it there.
While Faith is with me, I am blest;
It turns my darkest night to day;
But while I clasp it to my breast,
I often feel it slide away.
Then, cold and dark, my spirit sinks,
To see my light of life depart;
And every fiend of Hell, methinks,
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