Looking for Yan Fu's Self-ordered Translation of Evolution

John Mill, a British logician, famously said, "People who don't know several languages can't study the language of a country and make its deepest theory appear." I began to question this sentence, and now I deeply understand it, and I believe it more and more, lamenting that his words can't be changed. Is it just words? As for the truth of small sentences, the ancients devoted all their energy to a kind of learning. When he gained something, he kept it in his heart as a theory, and when he moved his tongue or wrote it in a book, it became words. There are reasons why he got this theory, and there are also reasons why he wrote it in the book and passed it down from generation to generation. Alas, is it by accident! Later generations read the books of the ancients, but don't try to learn from them, so there is a profound and superficial difference between what the ancients got from learning and taking it as a theory. What's more, after a long time, the copying and printing of books also have inherited mistakes. Phonology is changing in every era, so it is difficult to understand interchangeable words; Customs change in the process of continuation, so things have different meanings. In this way, even if it is difficult for exegetics to clarify the meaning of words, the will of the ancients to later scholars will become more and more obscure. Therefore, it is difficult to read ancient books. Even so, the theories handed down from ancient books are similar. If his theory is accurate and his work is credible, then neither the times nor the national customs can stop him. So, if it is not handed down from here, it will sometimes appear there, but things are the same and there is no plan. A person who studies theory uses what he got from abroad to provide evidence for what we ancient people handed down, and then thoroughly understands it as if he had just woken up. Compared with reading and reciting, this kind of fun is greatly appreciated by readers. This is indeed the greatest pleasure of learning other languages.

Today, the Six Arts are like the sun and the moon passing through the sky and rivers flowing through the land, and they are gone forever. Confucianism attaches great importance to the six arts in Yi and Chunqiu. Sima Qian said: "The Book of Changes is based on subtle deduction, and The Spring and Autumn Annals is based on subtle deduction." This is the most accurate statement in the world. At first, I thought that "recessive manifestation" was nothing more than divination to infer bad luck, and "recessive inference" was nothing more than commendatory inference. It was not until I studied the logic of westerners that I saw their behavior of acquiring knowledge by studying objective things, including induction and deduction. Induction is a method of observing the local to understand the overall situation and studying the subtle differences to understand the whole. Deduce a mage's method of inferring different situations according to objective facts. So he pushed the book up and said, "Well, this is the theory of Yi and Chunqiu! Sima Qian's "recessive manifestation" is deductive method, and "deductive invisibility" is inductive method. His words have already explained this truth. These two methods are the most important ways and methods to study the exhaustion theory. However, later generations did not know how to promote it, did not try to serve their own affairs, and did not try to negotiate this method. "

In the past two hundred years, the academic development in Europe has far surpassed that in ancient times. The logic and formulas they get often see the most correct things and can't be shaken. Looking back, we ancient people often got theories ahead of them, not to gain prestige. I will list those clear and credible places and seek correctness in the world. Western learning is the most practical knowledge, and mastering its axioms can control complex and changeable things. There are only four sciences: logic, mathematics, chemistry and physics. Our Book of Changes takes logic and mathematics as classics and chemistry and physics as dimensions, so it is collectively called the Book of Changes. Within the world, natural phenomena such as objects and static motion promote each other. Without objects, natural phenomena cannot be seen, and without natural phenomena, objects cannot be presented. All objects are the sky, and all natural phenomena are the earth. Newton's three laws of mechanics, the first law says: "A stationary thing cannot move by itself without external force, and a moving thing cannot move by itself without external force;" Objects move in a straight line at a uniform speed. "This is an unprecedented theory. Since this law has been established, natural science has become clear, and humanities have also achieved twice the result with half the effort. " "Yi" said: "When the sky is at rest, it will always be at rest, free from external forces and moving in a straight line (the correct meaning is that the sky is single-minded when it is at rest and upright when it is moving. This is used to echo the first law. In the next 200 years, Newton wrote a book with the theory of evolution of heaven and earth, explaining the phenomena of the world with the truth of nature. This is also a recent masterpiece.

I'm so tired. Let's keep turning. . .