| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from United States Declaration of Independence: an example and fit instrument for introducing the same
absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws,
and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves
invested with Power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection
and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns,
and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries
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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 Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot: opponent endeavours to render the communications undecipherable
to one and all by what is known as "jambing." That is to say, he
sends out an aimless string of signals for the purpose of
confusing senders and receivers, and this is continued without
cessation and at a rapid rate. The result is that messages
become blurred and undecipherable.
But there is another danger attending the use of wireless upon
the battlefield. The fact that the stations are of limited range
is well known to the opposing forces, and they are equally well
aware of the fact that aerial craft cannot communicate over long
distances. For instance, A sends his airmen aloft and
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