| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: them.
[19] Lit. "Paidonomos."
[20] Lit. "Eirens."
I ought, as it seems to me, not to omit some remark on the subject of
boy attachments,[21] it being a topic in close connection with that of
boyhood and the training of boys.
[21] See Plut. "Lycurg." 17 (Clough, i. 109).
We know that the rest of the Hellenes deal with this relationship in
different ways, either after the manner of the Boeotians,[22] where
man and boy are intimately united by a bond like that of wedlock, or
after the manner of the Eleians, where the fruition of beauty is an
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Extracts From Adam's Diary by Mark Twain: had a very good name for the estate, and it was musical and pretty--
GARDEN-OF-EDEN. Privately, I continue to call it that, but not
any longer publicly. The new creature says it is all woods and
rocks and scenery, and therefore has no resemblance to a garden.
Says it looks like a park, and does not look like anything but a
park. Consequently, without consulting me, it has been new-named--
NIAGARA FALLS PARK. This is sufficiently high-handed, it seems to
me. And already there is a sign up:
KEEP OFF
THE GRASS
My life is not as happy as it was.
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