| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen: had left immediately after the unpleasantness, as he called it,
and since then the house had been empty."
Mr. Villiers paused for a moment.
"I have always been rather fond of going over empty
houses; there's a sort of fascination about the desolate empty
rooms, with the nails sticking in the walls, and the dust thick
upon the window-sills. But I didn't enjoy going over Number 20,
Paul Street. I had hardly put my foot inside the passage when I
noticed a queer, heavy feeling about the air of the house. Of
course all empty houses are stuffy, and so forth, but this was
something quite different; I can't describe it to you, but it
The Great God Pan |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin: is lowered; for they likewise speak of the young chimpanzee,
when crying out, as having the eyebrows strongly contracted."
The great power of movement in the scalp of the gorilla,
of many baboons and other monkeys, deserves notice in relation
to the power possessed by some few men, either through reversion
or persistence, of voluntarily moving their scalps.[20]
_Astonishment, Terror_--A living fresh-water turtle was placed at my request
in the same compartment in the Zoological Gardens with many monkeys;
and they showed unbounded astonishment, as well as some fear.
This was displayed by their remaining motionless, staring intently
with widely opened eyes, their eyebrows being often moved up and down.
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum: island."
The little Wizard seemed to think that this was
rather a forlorn hope.
"How will you summon them," he asked the lovely
Sorceress, "and how can they hear you?"
"That is something we must consider carefully,"
responded stately Glinda, with a serene smile. "I
think I can find a way."
All of Ozma's counsellors applauded this sentiment,
for they knew well the powers of the Sorceress.
"Very well," agreed the Wizard. "Summon them, most
Glinda of Oz |
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 Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: the great number of those who are above it. The exception at
last becomes the rule, concession follows concession, and no stop
can be made short of universal suffrage.
At the present day the principle of the sovereignty of the
people has acquired, in the United States, all the practical
development which the imagination can conceive. It is
unencumbered by those fictions which have been thrown over it in
other
countries, and it appears in every possible form according to the
exigency of the occasion. Sometimes the laws are made by the
people in a body, as at Athens; and sometimes its
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