| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Eve and David by Honore de Balzac: "Come, Kolb, off with you. Put up the horse at Mme. Courtois' so as to
save inconvenience here; fathers are always in the right, remember
that."
Kolb went off, growling like a chidden dog, obedient but protesting;
and David proposed to give his father indisputable proof of his
discovery, while reserving his secret. He offered to give him an
interest in the affair in return for money paid down; a sufficient sum
to release him from his present difficulties, with or without a
further amount of capital to be employed in developing the invention.
"And how are you going to prove to me that you can make good paper
that costs nothing out of nothing, eh?" asked the ex-printer, giving
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from On Horsemanship by Xenophon: [1] Cf. "Mem." III. x.
[2] L. Dind. cf. Hom. "Il." viii. 326:
{. . . othi kleis apoergei
aukhena te stethos te, malista de kairion estin.}
"Where the collar-bone fenceth off neck and breast, and where is
the most deadly spot" (W. Leaf).
As to the helmet, the best kind, in our opinion, is one of the
Boeotian pattern,[3] on the principle again, that it covers all the
parts exposed above the breastplate without hindering vision. Another
point: the corselet should be so constructed that it does not prevent
its wearer sitting down or stooping. About the abdomen and the
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