| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: 'a reasonable quantity of gas' was collected in the voltameter. The
circuit was then broken, and the quantity of tin liberated compared
with the quantity of gas. The weight of the former was 3.2 grains,
that of the latter 0.49742 of a grain. Oxygen, as you know, unites
with hydrogen in the proportion of 8 to 1, to form water. Calling
the equivalent, or as it is sometimes called, the atomic weight of
hydrogen 1, that of oxygen is 8; that of water is consequently 8 + 1
or 9. Now if the quantity of water decomposed in Faraday's
experiment be represented by the number 9, or in other words by the
equivalent of water, then the quantity of tin liberated from the
fused chloride is found by an easy calculation to be 57.9, which is
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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 At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the ground with the strength of many earthly bulls,
another door directly beneath us was opened, and from
it issued the most terrific roar that ever had fallen
upon my outraged ears. I could not at first see
the beast from which emanated this fearsome challenge,
but the sound had the effect of bringing the two victims
around with a sudden start, and then I saw the girl's
face--she was not Dian! I could have wept for relief.
And now, as the two stood frozen in terror, I saw the author
of that fearsome sound creeping stealthily into view.
It was a huge tiger--such as hunted the great Bos
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