Chapter 102 Winter Lake - 4

There are three of the five depressions, I have measured them all, there is a sandbar at the mouth, but the inside is deep water, but the purpose of the sandbar is not only to expand the area, but also to expand to the depth, forming an independent lake. The basin of the sandbar, and the two headlands show the orientation of the sandbar.There is also a sandbar at the entrance to every port on the coast.Just as the mouth of a hollow is wider than it is long, so the water on a sandbar is, in the same proportion, deeper than that in a basin.So having given you the dimensions of the depression, and the state of the surrounding shore, you will have almost sufficient material to formulate a formula which will be of use in any case of this kind.

I used these experiences to measure the deepest part of the lake, just by observing its planar outline and the characteristics of its shores. In order to see how accurate my measurements were, I drew a plan from the lake. Eleven acres or so, like this pond, has no island in it, nor inlet or outlet: for the widest line is fairly close to the narrowest line, where the two separated headlands approach each other, and the The two opposite sandbars are far away from each other, so I picked a point on the narrowest line, but still intersected on the longest line, as it is the deepest point.The deepest point was indeed less than a hundred feet from this point, and a little further in the direction I had set, was a foot deeper than I had predicted, that is, sixty feet deep.Of course, if there is a spring flowing in, or if there is an island in the lake, the problem is more complicated.

If we know all the laws of nature, we only need to understand a fact, or as long as we make a faithful description of a phenomenon, we can draw inferences from one instance and draw all special conclusions.Now we know only a few laws, and our conclusions are often absurd. Naturally, this is not because nature is irregular or chaotic, but because we are still ignorant of some basic principles in our calculations.The rules and harmony we know are often limited to some things we have examined; but there are many more laws that seem to be contradictory but actually correspond, we have just not found it, and the harmony they produce is Even more amazing.Our particular laws are all from our point of view, just as from the perspective of a traveler, every time he takes a step, the outline of the mountain changes a step. Although there is absolutely only one form, there are countless profiles. .Even if you crack it, even if you drill through it, you can't see its whole picture.

As far as I have observed, this is true of the lake, and it is also true of ethics.This is the law of averages.The law of measuring with two diameters in this way not only instructs us to observe the solar system in the celestial bodies, but also instructs us to observe the human heart, and we can determine the length and breadth of the aggregate composed of a person's special daily behavior and life trends. Two such lines can also be drawn, leading to his recesses and entrances, and the intersection of those two lines will be the highest peak or deepest part of his character.Perhaps we only need to know the direction of the man's bank and his surroundings to know his depth and hidden bottom.Had he been surrounded by mountainous surroundings, with precipitous lake shores and towering peaks reflected in his breast, he must have been a man of the same depth.But a low lake shore shows that this person is also superficial on the other hand.On our body, a prominently protruding forehead indicates depth of thought.At the entrance of each of our recesses, too, there is a sandbar, or rather, we all have a special tendency; each recess, for a certain period, is our harbor, and here we stay especially long , bound there almost permanently.Often these inclinations are not grotesque; their form, size, and direction are determined by the headlands on the shore, the ancient axis of elevation.When this sandbar is gradually raised by storms, tides or currents, or rises above the surface when the water level falls, what was at first a mere inclination of the shore, in which the thought was hidden, now stands alone and becomes a The lake, separated from the great sea, may change from brackish to fresh, perhaps a fresh sea, a dead sea, or a swamp, after thought acquires its own realm.And when every human being comes into the world, can we say that such a sandbar rises to the surface of the water?It is true, that we are poor navigators, and that our thoughts in general are a little cloudy, and that on a coastline without harbors, we can at most commute to some poetic harbour, or sail into a public ocean. Ports sail into the dry docks of science, where they are disassembled and reassembled to suit the world, and there is no current that keeps them independent at the same time.