A Critique on the "Illustrated Evolution of Mohist Hydraulic Systems": It is obsessed with completeness but c…
A Critique on the "Illustrated Evolution of Mohist Hydraulic Systems":
It is obsessed with completeness but clumsy in thought, biased toward the minute while lacking a grand vision. It exhaustively records a century's worth of mechanisms, rendering further analysis unnecessary, for the evolution of its principles has already laid itself bare.
Yet water is a thing of constant change; it cannot be confined to a single time or place. If one does not act, so be it. But if one must act, one must calculate the four seasons, delineate the square and the circle, connect ten thousand miles, and secure the eight desolate corners of the realm.
In antiquity, Yu the Great dredged the world's waters and left behind methods for ten thousand generations. As for us men of today, having inherited the wisdom of the sages and possessing the aid of mechanical arts, if we fail to establish an unprecedented legacy, have we not read our myriad scrolls in vain? We must rise and emulate his greatness!