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The odd thing is that we do not even really believe that the man in the water lost his fight. "Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature," said Emerson. Exactly. The man in the water had his own natural powers. He could not make ice storms, or freeze the water until it froze the blood. But he could hand life over to a stranger, and that is a power of nature too. The man in the water set himself against an immovable, impersonal enemy; he fought it with kindness; and he held it to a standoff. He was the best we can do.
奇怪的是，我們居然不相信“水中人”在抗爭中失敗了。“大自然中的萬物蘊藏著大自然的全部力量。”愛默生如是說。的確如此。水中的這位英雄有著他自己的自然力量。他不能制造冰暴，或是讓水結冰直至使血液凝固，但是，他能把生命讓給一個陌生人，這也是大自然的一種力量。“水中人”與一個冷漠、無情的敵人抗爭著，他以仁慈之心與之對抗，與大自然打了一個平手。他是人性最高境界的代表。
