| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: duties; while at another it makes itself felt as a determined endeavour
after self-culture; that in one land it embodies itself mainly in a
resolute endeavour to enlarge the sphere of remunerative labour for women;
while in another it manifests itself chiefly as an effort to reco-ordinate
the personal relation of the sexes; that in one individual it manifests
itself as a passionate and sometimes noisy struggle for liberty of personal
action; while in another it is being fought out silently in the depth of
the individual consciousness--that primal battle-ground, in which all
questions of reform and human advance must ultimately be fought and
decided;--all this diversity, and the fact that the average woman is
entirely concerned in labour in her own little field, shows, not the
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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 On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau: and orphans that may be; who, in short, ventures to live
only by the aid of the Mutual Insurance company, which has
promised to bury him decently.
It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to
devote himself to the eradication of any, even to most
enormous, wrong; he may still properly have other concerns
to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his
hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to
give it practically his support. If I devote myself to
other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at
least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's
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