| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: present, despite a representation of half the world's expert learning
in this field, could form the least notion of even their remotest
linguistic kinship. They, like the subject and material, belonged
to something horribly remote and distinct from mankind as we know
it. something frightfully suggestive of old and unhallowed cycles
of life in which our world and our conceptions have no part.
And
yet, as the members severally shook their heads and confessed
defeat at the Inspector's problem, there was one man in that gathering
who suspected a touch of bizarre familiarity in the monstrous
shape and writing, and who presently told with some diffidence
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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 Revenues by Xenophon: own would aspire to the status of foreign residents in Athens, and so
further increase the revenues of the city.[11]
[10] "The Archon was the legal protector of all orphans. It was his
duty to appoint guardians, if none were named in the father's
will."--C. R. Kennedy, Note to "Select Speeches of Demosthenes."
The orphans of those who had fallen in the war (Thuc. ii. 46) were
specially cared for.
[11] Or, "help to swell the state exchequer."
III
At this point I propose to offer some remarks in proof of the
attractions and advantages of Athens as a centre of commercial
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