| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: in the camp? and has the witch doctor yet found the cause
wherefore game is scarce and no moose in the land?"
"Yes; even so. There is little game, and we prepare to eat the
dogs. Also has the witch doctor found the cause of all this evil,
and to-morrow will he make sacrifice and cleanse the camp."
"And what does the sacrifice chance to be?--a new-born babe or
some poor devil of a squaw, old and shaky, who is a care to the
tribe and better out of the way?"
"It chanced not that wise; for the need was great, and he chose
none other than the chief's daughter; none other than I, Sipsu."
"Hell!" The word rose slowly to Hitchcock's lips, and brimmed
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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 First Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln: the court or the judges. It is a duty from which they may not shrink
to decide cases properly brought before them, and it is no fault of
theirs if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes.
One section of our country believes slavery is RIGHT, and ought
to be extended, while the other believes it is WRONG, and ought
not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute.
The fugitive-slave clause of the Constitution, and the law for the
suppression of the foreign slave-trade, are each as well enforced,
perhaps, as any law can ever be in a community where the moral
sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself.
The great body of the people abide by the dry legal obligation
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