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简介

The Tianyanlun is Yan Fu’s rendering of Thomas Huxley’s lecture “Evolution and Ethics” (1893) and its prolegomena, circulated in manuscript from 1896 and printed in 1898. It is less a translation than a dialogue: Yan Fu condensed and adapted Huxley’s text and added commentaries in which he sided with Spencer against Huxley, treating evolution as a process of progress that applies to societies and nations. He wrote in an elevated classical prose and set out his principles of translation – faithfulness, comprehensibility and elegance – in the preface. The book was read by a whole generation of reformers and students, among them Liang Qichao, Lu Xun and Hu Shih, and made evolutionary vocabulary part of Chinese political language.

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• 物种起源1859 · 查尔斯·达尔文
• 社会学原理1876 · 赫伯特·斯宾塞

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