| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: do not believe he valued the life of one at half-a-farthing. But that
part of the coast of Lothian is to this day as wild a place, and the
commons there as rough a crew, as any in Scotland.
One incident of my imprisonment is made memorable by a consequence it
had long after. There was a warship at this time stationed in the
Firth, the SEAHORSE, Captain Palliser. It chanced she was cruising in
the month of September, plying between Fife and Lothian, and sounding
for sunk dangers. Early one fine morning she was seen about two miles
to east of us, where she lowered a boat, and seemed to examine the
Wildfire Rocks and Satan's Bush, famous dangers of that coast. And
presently after having got her boat again, she came before the wind and
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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 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: tinge.
Has not Christianity declaimed against private property, against
marriage,
against the State? Has it not preached in the place of these,
charity and
poverty, celibacy and mortification of the flesh, monastic life
and
Mother Church? Christian Socialism is but the holy, water with
which
the priest consecrates the heart-burnings of the aristocrat.
B. Petty-Bourgeois Socialism
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