| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: solution of the difficulty that they imparted it at once with much
pride to the natives. You have indeed got, they graciously if
somewhat gratuitously informed them, the outward semblance of the
true faith, but you are in fact the miserable victims of an impious
fraud. Satan has stolen the insignia of divinity, and is now
masquerading before you as the deity; your god is really our devil,
--a recognition of antipodal inversion truly worthy the Jesuitical
mind!
Perhaps it is not matter for great surprise that they converted but
few of their hearers. The suggestion was hardly so diplomatic as
might have been expected from so generally astute a body; for it
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs: ancestor would have done.
He took his woman in his arms and carried her into the jungle.
Early the following morning the four within the little cabin
by the beach were awakened by the booming of a cannon.
Clayton was the first to rush out, and there, beyond the
harbor's mouth, he saw two vessels lying at anchor.
One was the Arrow and the other a small French cruiser.
The sides of the latter were crowded with men gazing shoreward,
and it was evident to Clayton, as to the others who had now
joined him, that the gun which they had heard had been fired
to attract their attention if they still remained at the cabin.
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