| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Mansion by Henry van Dyke: shoulder.
"Father," he said, "I want to remember it. I try to believe in
it.
But somehow or other, in this house, it all seems unreal to me.
No doubt all you say is perfectly right and wise. I don't
venture to
argue against it, but I can't feel it--that's all. If I'm to
have a soul,
either to lose or to save, I must really live. Just now neither
the
present nor the future means anything to me. But surely we won't
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber: assistant to the General Merchandise Manager. They worked
well together, she and Fenger, their minds often marching
along without the necessity of a single spoken word. There
was no doubt that Fenger's mind was a marvelous piece of
mechanism. Under it the Haynes-Cooper plant functioned with
the clockwork regularity of a gigantic automaton. System
and Results--these were his twin gods. With his mind
intent on them he failed to see that new gods, born of
spiritual unrest, were being set up in the temples of Big
Business. Their coming had been rumored for many years.
Words such as Brotherhood, Labor, Rights, Humanity, Hours,
Fanny Herself |
