| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: they do when Richter conducts it. The mass of imposture that thrives
on this combination of ignorance with despairing endurance is
incalculable. Given a public trained from childhood to stand anything
tedious, and so saturated with school discipline that even with the
doors open and no schoolmasters to stop them they will sit there
helplessly until the end of the concert or opera gives them leave to
go home; and you will have in great capitals hundreds of thousands of
pounds spent every night in the season on professedly artistic
entertainments which have no other effect on fine art than to
exacerbate the hatred in which it is already secretly held in England.
Fortunately, there are arts that cannot be cut off from the people by
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: "Don't you do it, Brother Cartwright; don't
you do it. You don't know Hank Walters like I
does. If he oncet gets out o' there before he's
signed that pledge, he won't never sign it."
So they fixed it up that Brother Cartwright was
to write out a pledge on the inside leaf of the Bible,
and tie the Bible onto a string, and a lead pencil
onto another string, and let the strings down to
Hank, and he was to make his mark, fur he couldn't
write, and they was to be pulled up agin. Hank,
he says all right, and they done it. But jest as
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