The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare: At last he takes her by the bloodless hand,
And thus begins: 'What uncouth ill event
Hath thee befall'n, that thou dost trembling stand?
Sweet love, what spite hath thy fair colour spent?
Why art thou thus attir'd in discontent?
Unmask, dear dear, this moody heaviness,
And tell thy grief, that we may give redress.'
Three times with sighs she gives her sorrow fire,
Ere once she can discharge one word of woe:
At length address'd to answer his desire,
She modestly prepares to let them know
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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 Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: know about earthquakes, if we believe that on the whole they are
caused by steam and other gases expanding, that is, spreading out,
with wonderful quickness and strength. Of course there must be
something to make them expand, and that is HEAT. But we will not
talk of that yet.
Now do you remember that riddle which I put to you the other day?-
-"What had the rattling of the lid of the kettle to do with
Hartford Bridge Flat being lifted out of the ancient sea?"
The answer to the riddle, I believe, is--Steam has done both. The
lid of the kettle rattles, because the expanding steam escapes in
little jets, and so causes a LID-QUAKE. Now suppose that there
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