| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: i. pp. 201, 202.
[20] Or, "new citizens, provincials, and Sciritae."
Phoebidas, when the remaining portion of his brother's forces was duly
mustered, put himself at their head and commenced his march. On
reaching Thebes the troops encamped outside the city, round the
gymnasium. Faction was rife within the city. The two polemarchs in
office, Ismenias and Leontiades, were diametrically opposed,[21] being
the respective heads of antagonistic political clubs. Hence it was
that, while Ismenias, ever inspired by hatred to the Lacedaemonians,
would not come anywhere near the Spartan general, Leontiades, on the
other hand, was assiduous in courting him; and when a sufficient
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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 Memorabilia by Xenophon: another beautiful? Do not you know that relatively to the same
standard all things are at once beautiful and good?[8] In the first
place, virtue is not a good thing relatively to one standard and a
beautiful thing relatively to another standard; and in the next place,
human beings, on the same principle[9] and relatively to the same
standard, are called "beautiful and good"; and so the bodily frames of
men relatively to the same standards are seen to be "beautiful and
good," and in general all things capable of being used by man are
regarded as at once beautiful and good relatively to the same standard
--the standing being in each case what the thing happens to be useful
for.[10]
The Memorabilia |
