| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from On Revenues by Xenophon: proportionally increased. So much so, that of all operations with
which I am acquainted, this is the only one in which no sort of
jealousy is felt at a further development of the industry.[4] I may go
a step farther; every proprietor of a farm will be able to tell you
exactly how many yoke of oxen are sufficient for the estate, and how
many farm hands. To send into the field more than the exact number
requisite every farmer would consider a dead loss.[5] But in silver
mining [operations] the universal complaint is the want of hands.
Indeed there is no analogy between this and other industries. With an
increase in the number of bronze-workers articles of bronze may become
so cheap that the bronze-worker has to retire from the field. And so
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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 Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Stevenson: you would give it to one of the brothers.'
I had dined alone, because I arrived late; but at supper I found
two other guests. One was a country parish priest, who had walked
over that morning from the seat of his cure near Mende to enjoy
four days of solitude and prayer. He was a grenadier in person,
with the hale colour and circular wrinkles of a peasant; and as he
complained much of how he had been impeded by his skirts upon the
march, I have a vivid fancy portrait of him, striding along,
upright, big-boned, with kilted cassock, through the bleak hills of
Gevaudan. The other was a short, grizzling, thick-set man, from
forty-five to fifty, dressed in tweed with a knitted spencer, and
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