| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: difficulty. They sacrifice--that is, the whole state sacrifices--at
the public cost a large number of victims; but it is the People that
keeps holiday and distributes the victims by lot amongst its members.
Rich men have in some cases private gymnasia and baths with dressing-
rooms,[9] but the People takes care to have built at the public
cost[10] a number of palaestras, dressing-rooms, and bathing
establishments for its own special use, and the mob gets the benefit
of the majority of these, rather than the select few or the well-to-
do.
[8] Reading with Kirchhoff, {istasthai}.
[9] See Jebb, "Theophr. Char." vii. 18, p. 202.
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Rinkitink In Oz by L. Frank Baum: young man, tall and shapely, who fell on his knees
before the great Sorceress and gratefully kissed her
hand, admitting that he had now recovered his proper
shape and was indeed Prince Bobo of Boboland.
This process of magic, successful though it was in
the end, had required so much time that the banquet was
now awaiting their presence. Bobo was already dressed
in princely raiment and although he seemed very much
humbled by his recent lowly condition, they finally
persuaded him to join the festivities.
When Rinkitink saw that his goat had now become a
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