| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: communi consilio acturos eundemque omnes fortunae exitum esse laturos,
reliquasque civitates sollicitant, ut in ea libertate quam a maioribus
acceperint permanere quam Romanorum servitutem perferre malint. Omni ora
maritima celeriter ad suam sententiam perducta communem legationem ad
P. Crassum mittunt, si velit suos recuperare, obsides sibi remittat.
Quibus de rebus Caesar a Crasso certior factus, quod ipse aberat
longius, naves interim longas aedificari in flumine Ligeri, quod influit
in Oceanum, remiges ex provincia institui, nautas gubernatoresque
comparari iubet. His rebus celeriter administratis ipse, cum primum per
anni tempus potuit, ad exercitum contendit. Veneti reliquaeque item
civitates cognito Caesaris adventu [certiores facti], simul quod quantum
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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 and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: them so greatly? To whom did they belong?
He recalled the black men who had buried them.
The things must be theirs. Werper was stealing them as
he had stolen Tarzan's pouch of pebbles. The ape-man's
eyes blazed in anger. He would like to find the black
men and lead them against these thieves. He wondered
where their village might be.
As all these things ran through the active mind, a
party of men moved out of the forest at the edge of the
plain and advanced toward the ruins of the burned bungalow.
Abdul Mourak, always watchful, was the first to see
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