Talk:Classical Element Manipulation/@comment-173.59.71.11-20130427231219/@comment-3467624-20130428190454

Well, it's called "classical" because that's what ancient scientists and alchemists considered the elements and they didn't know what electricity was exactly either.

To them, the four elements were like how we see all the elements in the periodic table, everything was made up of either earth, water, wind, or fire. All liquids were variations of water, all gasses were wind, all solids were categorized under earth, and fire was heat and energy.