| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: they feed themselves. I need not tell you about them.
Now comes the question--Whence did these flints and bones come?
They came out of a cave in Dordogne, in the heart of sunny
France,--far away to the south, where it is hotter every summer
than it was here even this summer, from among woods of box and
evergreen oak, and vineyards of rich red wine. In that warm land
once lived savages, who hunted amid ice and snow the reindeer, and
with the reindeer animals stranger still.
And now I will tell you a fairy tale: to make you understand it
at all I must put it in the shape of a tale. I call it a fairy
tale, because it is so strange; indeed I think I ought to call it
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Somebody's Little Girl by Martha Young: Because, in all that she knew or remembered or wondered about, there
was nothing at all about that strange thing that all the little
children, but herself, knew so well about--''Own-dear-sisters.''
Another strange thing came into her mind, brought into her mind
partly by her ears, but mostly by her eyes: There were not in this
new world on the high mountain--perhaps there were not after all so
many anywhere as she had thought--there were not so many Sisters
like Sister Helen Vincula (for was not Sister Helen Vincula the only
Sister she had seen on the mountain?). There were not after all so
many Sisters like Sister Angela; and Sister Mary Felice, who watched
the little blue-checked-apron girls playing in the sand; and Sister
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