| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: explained to Ranald MacEagh the difference betwixt travelling
EXPEDITUS and IMPEDITUS, as these two military phrases were
understood at Mareschal-College, Aberdeen. The sole answer of
the mountaineer was to lay his hand on the soldier's arm, and
point backward in the direction of the wind. Dalgetty could spy
nothing, for evening was closing fast, and they were at the
bottom of a dark ravine. But at length he could distinctly hear
at a distance the sullen toll of a large bell.
"That," said he, "must be the alarm--the storm-clock, as the
Germans call it."
"It strikes the hour of your death," answered Ranald, "unless you
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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 Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: criticism of the basis of capitalist society. Look at the new
members of our party. Marx is quite unnecessary to them.
They join us, not for struggle in the interests of an oppressed
class, but simply because they understand our aims in
constructive work. And, as this process continues, we old
social democrats shall disappear, and our places will be filled
by people of entirely different character grown up under
entirely new conditions."
NON-PARTYISM
Rykov's prophecies of the disappearance of Political parties
may be falsified by a development of that very non-partyism
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