| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Stevenson: 'God,' said I, 'is everywhere.'
'CEPENDANT, COUCHER DEHORS!' he repeated, and his voice was
eloquent of terror.
He was the only person, in all my voyage, who saw anything hardy in
so simple a proceeding; although many considered it superfluous.
Only one, on the other hand, professed much delight in the idea;
and that was my Plymouth Brother, who cried out, when I told him I
sometimes preferred sleeping under the stars to a close and noisy
ale-house, 'Now I see that you know the Lord!'
The merchant asked me for one of my cards as I was leaving, for he
said I should be something to talk of in the future, and desired me
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: anything like shelter to the boats, which by this time had
been made fast by a long line to the beacon, and rode with
much agitation, each requiring two men with boat-hooks to keep
them from striking each other, or from ranging up against the
beacon. But even under these circumstances the greatest
confidence was felt by every one, from the security afforded
by this temporary erection. For, supposing the wind had
suddenly increased to a gale, and that it had been found
unadvisable to go into the boats; or, supposing they had
drifted or sprung a leak from striking upon the rocks; in any
of these possible and not at all improbable cases, those who
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