| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair: victim would say that the whole country was getting stirred up,
that the newspapers were full of denunciations of it, and the
government taking action against it, Tommy Hinds had a knock-out
blow all ready. "Yes," he would say, "all that is true--but what
do you suppose is the reason for it? Are you foolish enough to
believe that it's done for the public? There are other trusts in
the country just as illegal and extortionate as the Beef Trust:
there is the Coal Trust, that freezes the poor in winter--there
is the Steel Trust, that doubles the price of every nail in your
shoes--there is the Oil Trust, that keeps you from reading at
night--and why do you suppose it is that all the fury of the
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: the police were so obliging as to preside paternally. Thus
relieved from what he loved to refer to as the Bulgarian
Atrocity, Mr Wickham returned to London with the most unbounded
and embarrassing gratitude and admiration for his saviour. These
sentiments were not repaid either in kind or degree; indeed,
Michael was a trifle ashamed of his new client's friendship; it
had taken many invitations to get him to Winchester and Wickham
Manor; but he had gone at last, and was now returning. It has
been remarked by some judicious thinker (possibly J. F. Smith)
that Providence despises to employ no instrument, however humble;
and it is now plain to the dullest that both Mr Wickham and the
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