| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: hatred was against all religion, or only against that which they saw
around them? Have we proof that they would have equally hated, had
they been in permanent contact with them, creeds more free from
certain faults which seemed to them, in the case of the French
Church, ineradicable and inexpiable? Till then we must have
charity--which is justice--even for the philosophes of the
eighteenth century.
This view of the case had been surely overlooked by M. de
Tocqueville, when he tried to explain by the fear of revolutions,
the fact that both in America and in England, "while the boldest
political doctrines of the eighteenth-century philosophers have been
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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 Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: And inside their prison the love-birds flutter towards the papers in the
seed-tray.
"You have great strength of character. You will marry a red-haired man and
have three children. Beware of a blonde woman." Look out! Look out! A
motor-car driven by a fat chauffeur comes rushing down the hill. Inside
there a blonde woman, pouting, leaning forward--rushing through your life--
beware! beware!
"Ladies and gentlemen, I am an auctioneer by profession, and if what I tell
you is not the truth I am liable to have my licence taken away from me and
a heavy imprisonment." He holds the licence across his chest; the sweat
pours down his face into his paper collar; his eyes look glazed. When he
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