| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: over.
Nekhludoff stopped under the roof.
"I have got 12 of them there," continued the old man, pointing to
two women on the remainder of the manure heap, who stood
perspiring with forks in their hands, the kerchiefs tumbling off
their heads, with their skirts tucked up, showing the calves of
their dirty, bare legs. "Not a month passes but I have to buy six
poods [a pood is 36 English pounds] of corn, and where's the money to
come from?"
"Have you not got enough corn of your own?
"My own?" repeated the old man, with a smile of contempt; "why I
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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 I Have A Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.: the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial
injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the
moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro. This
sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not
pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and
equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning.
Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will
now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns
to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility
in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The
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