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परिचय

“On Strength” is one of four essays that Yan Fu published in the Tianjin newspaper Zhibao in 1895, in the months after China’s defeat by Japan. It opens with Darwin and with Spencer’s science of society and asks why Western nations had become so powerful. Yan Fu’s answer is that power rests on three qualities of a people – physical strength, knowledge and moral virtue – and that Western institutions, including liberty, serve to develop them. China’s weakness, he argued, lay not in a lack of weapons but in a political and educational order that kept these qualities undeveloped. The essay, revised in later years, set out the programme that guided his translations.

संबंध

जिस पर आधारित

• जीवजाति का उद्भव1859 · चार्ल्स डार्विन
• समाजशास्त्र के सिद्धांत1876 · हरबर्ट स्पेंसर

येन फ़ू की और कृतियाँ

• 1898विकास पर (तियानयेनलुन)