Passage 1
寶玉道:「既是中國的船,為甚要用外國人駛?」包妥當道:「中國人不會駛呢。」寶玉搖頭道:「沒有的話!外國人也不多兩個眼睛,也不多兩條膀子,有什麼不會的?不斈罷了。」包妥當道:「只怕心眼兒不及他呢。」寶玉道:「但凡是個人,心眼兒總是一樣的。不過有一種人被一種嗜好迷住,不得開罷了。還有孔子說的:『人一能之,己百之;人十能之,己千之。』那裡有斈不會的斈問呢?咱們不趕早斈會了,萬一他們各咱們不對起來,撒手不乾了,那就怎麼好呢?這麼大的船,不成了廢物了麼?」
Dependence, succession, and replacementCognition, attention, and judgmentLabour and mechanizationdependence · advancescultivate capacities · advancesCharacter and human developmentEconomic and material powerDiminishes autonomyIndividualInstitutionalMachine or artificial systemWork and economic order
Wu casts technical dependence on foreign operators as a preventable loss of collective capacity, answered by learning and self-reliance.
第02回,寶玉與包妥當論輪船技術