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What historical lessons and experiences did Yan Fu's life contain?
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Yan Fu translated many famous western academic works, such as The Theory of Evolution, and became a master of enlightening people's wisdom in modern China. After leaving Beiyang Naval Academy, Yan Fu successively served as inspector of Anhui Higher Education College, president of Fudan College and Peking University, taking education as his own responsibility. After the Revolution of 1911, it was once attached to Yuan Shikai and involved in the Hongxian monarchy, which was criticized by the world. Based on his unique grasp of the national conditions and people's feelings, Yan Fu opposed the revolutionary republic all his life and held a public opinion, which was not resolved at that time and even brought a lawsuit to future generations. Nevertheless, he was independent and his academic and political views were consistent, especially in translation studies, and his style and thoughts influenced a large number of famous translators in the later period. Many of his translated works are valuable legacies for future generations. His merits and demerits, success and failure, are worthy of careful study and summary by future generations. Although there have been many studies on Yan Fu's works, compared with his prominent position in China's modern ideological history, it is far from enough. It is necessary to further explore materials, change perspectives, innovate thinking and make a more comprehensive and fair judgment.

Lang Xianping commented:

He eventually became a dazzling comet in the history of China. His tragedy is that under the special circumstances at that time, he was the only person in China who could understand the vast western philosophy. However, God played a big joke on China, making him stop at the theory of evolution and concentrate on the translation of English philosophy. If you go a little further to the right, you can enter Spencer's thought, which gave birth to militarism, Kant's thought of modern rule of law and Hegel's Marxist thought of socialism. However, it was difficult for China at that time and even today to understand his profound thoughts, resulting in no successors. So, he stopped. Today, China lacks a philosophical thought to guide China. Only by understanding Yan Fu's tragedy can we understand China's current sorrow.