| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot: are extraordinary, as anyone who has indulged in ballooning
knows fully well. On a clear summer's day I have been able to
see the ground beneath with perfect distinctness from a height of
4,500 feet, yet when the craft had ascended a further two or
three hundred feet, the panorama was blurred. A film of haze
lies between the balloon and the ground beneath. And the
character of this haze is continually changing, so that the
aerial observer's task is rendered additionally difficult. Its
effects are particularly notice able when one attempts to
photograph the view unfolded below. Plate after plate may be
exposed and nothing will be revealed. Yet at a slightly lower
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx: exaggerating the feeling of patriotism, as under Louis Philippe, now;
they themselves are in command of the national power, they crawl before
foreign powers; instead of making Italy free, they allow her to be
reconquered by Austrians and Neapolitans. The election of Louis
Bonaparte for President on December 10, 1848, put an end to the
dictatorship of Cavaignac and to the constitutional assembly.
In Article 44 of the Constitution it is said "The President of the
French Republic must never have lost his status as a French citizen."
The first President of the French Republic, L. N. Bonaparte, had not
only lost his status as a French citizen, had not only been an English
special constable, but was even a naturalized Swiss citizen.
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