| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: up the facts of kinship nor eradicate its natural emotional
consequences. What we can do and ought to do is to set people free to
behave naturally and to change their behavior as circumstances change.
To impose on a citizen of London the family duties of a Highland
cateran in the eighteenth century is as absurd as to compel him to
carry a claymore and target instead of an umbrella. The civilized man
has no special use for cousins; and he may presently find that he has
no special use for brothers and sisters. The parent seems likely to
remain indispensable; but there is no reason why that natural tie
should be made the excuse for unnatural aggravations of it, as
crushing to the parent as they are oppressive to the child. The
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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 Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling: to the head - firing nets of raw stone or forged bolts.
Nothing can stand against them. He left us our catapults
at last, but he took a Caesar's half of our men
without pity. We were a shell when he rolled up the lists!
"'Hail, Caesar! We, about to die, salute you!" said
Pertinax, laughing. "If any enemy even leans against the
Wall now, it will tumble."
"'Give me the three years Allo spoke of," he
answered, "and you shall have twenty thousand men of
your own choosing up here. But now it is a gamble - a
game played against the Gods, and the stakes are Britain,
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