| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Pocket Diary Found in the Snow by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: with him. He found Mr. Fellner ready to go also, and it was with
great difficulty that he could dissuade the invalid, who was greatly
fatigued by his morning visit to the police station, from joining
them.
The carriages then drove off more quickly than before. It was now
quite dark, a gloomy stormy winter evening. Muller had taken his
place on the box of his cab and sat peering out into the darkness.
In spite of the sharp wind and the ice that blew against his face the
detective could see that they were going out from the more closely
built up portions of the city, and were now in new streets with
half-finished houses. Soon they passed even these and were outside
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: he would bring war to bear upon them; and when they refused to obey,
having first assigned to Conon as his business to keep the sea closed
against them, he proceeded in person to ravage the territory of the
men of Abydos. Presently, finding himself no nearer the fulfilment of
his object--which was their reduction--he set off home himself and
left it to Conon the while so to conciliate the Hellespontine states
that as large a naval power as possible might be mustered against the
coming spring. In his wrath against the Lacedaemonians, in return for
the treatment he had received from them, his paramount object was to
invade their territory and exact what vengeance he could.
B.C. 393. The winter was thus fully taken up with preparations; but
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