| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: unfortunately for himself, a Nonconformist. First he was
fined in four hundred pounds Scots, and then through cessing
he lost nineteen hundred and ninety-three pounds Scots. He
was next obliged to leave his house and flee from place to
place, during which wanderings he lost his horse. His wife
and children were turned out of doors, and then his tenants
were fined till they too were almost ruined. As a final
stroke, they drove away all his cattle to Glasgow and sold
them. (4) Surely it was time that something were done to
alleviate so much sorrow, to overthrow such tyranny.
About this time too there arrived in Galloway a person
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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 Underground City by Jules Verne: was never ruffled by a breeze, would not be without charm by the light
of some electric star, and, connected by a string of canals,
would well complete the geography of this strange domain.
Although unfit for any vegetable production, the place could be inhabited
by a whole population. And who knows but that in this steady temperature,
in the depths of the
mines of Aberfoyle, as well as in those of Newcastle, Alloa, or Cardiff--
when their contents shall have been exhausted--who knows but that
the poorer classes of Great Britain will some day find a refuge?
CHAPTER VIII EXPLORING
AT Harry's call, James Starr, Madge, and Simon Ford entered
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