| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: consideration of the nature of associations which are meant to
direct but not to enforce opinions, to suggest but not to make
the laws.
The more we consider the independence of the press in its
principal consequences, the more are we convinced that it is the
chief and, so to speak, the constitutive element of freedom in
the modern world. A nation which is determined to remain free is
therefore right in demanding the unrestrained exercise of this
independence. But the unrestrained liberty of political
association cannot be entirely assimilated to the liberty of the
press. The one is at the same time less necessary and more
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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 Mansfield Park by Jane Austen: He could not think Lady Bertram quite equal to supply his
place with them, or rather, to perform what should have
been her own; but, in Mrs. Norris's watchful attention,
and in Edmund's judgment, he had sufficient confidence
to make him go without fears for their conduct.
Lady Bertram did not at all like to have her husband leave her;
but she was not disturbed by any alarm for his safety,
or solicitude for his comfort, being one of those persons
who think nothing can be dangerous, or difficult,
or fatiguing to anybody but themselves.
The Miss Bertrams were much to be pitied on the occasion:
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