| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Songs of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: Over the sea to Skye.
Billow and breeze, islands and seas,
Mountains of rain and sun,
All that was good, all that was fair,
All that was me is gone.
XLIII - TO S. R. CROCKETT (On receiving a Dedication)
BLOWS the wind to-day, and the sun and the rain are flying,
Blows the wind on the moors to-day and now,
Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying,
My heart remembers how!
Grey recumbent tombs of the dead in desert places,
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: responding to the daily and indefinite calls of a community, the
other circumscribed within certain limits, and only exercising an
exceptional authority over the general interests of the country.
In short, there are twenty- four small sovereign nations, whose
agglomeration constitutes the body of the Union. To examine the
Union before we have studied the States would be to adopt a
method filled with obstacles. The form of the Federal Government
of the United States was the last which was adopted; and it is in
fact nothing more than a modification or a summary of those
republican principles which were current in the whole community
before it existed, and independently of its existence. Moreover,
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