| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: dear form to his breast, and then a glance about him
awakened the ape-man to the dangers which still
surrounded them.
Upon every hand the lions were still leaping upon new
victims. Fear-maddened horses still menaced them with
their erratic bolting from one side of the enclosure to
the other. Bullets from the guns of the defenders who
remained alive but added to the perils of their
situation.
To remain was to court death. Tarzan seized Jane
Clayton and lifted her to a broad shoulder. The blacks
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: hostile interests. I suppose, on the contrary, that they are all
equally interested in the maintenance of the Union; but I am
still of opinion that where there are 100,000,000 of men, and
forty distinct nations, unequally strong, the continuance of the
Federal Government can only be a fortunate accident.
[Footnote i: If the population continues to double every
twenty-two years, as it has done for the last two hundred years,
the number of inhabitants in the United States in 1852 will be
twenty millions; in 1874, forty-eight millions; and in 1896,
ninety-six millions. This may still be the case even if the
lands on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains should be found
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