Gu Hongming said, "There is only one way to get freedom and real freedom. That is to follow the rules, that is, to learn to restrain oneself properly. Look at China before the revolution. —— There were no priests, no police, no municipal taxes and no income tax. In short, there is nothing that makes the people of Europe and the United States want to live. If a person acts according to the standards of his conscience, he will naturally become a good citizen in society. Does such a citizen need Western religion? He himself believed in and obeyed the good people's religion.

There are some problems here. If there is no necessary goal, method and practice of common consent, this interpretation of conscience will also have multiple explanations. For example, it is not easy to unify the explanations of conscience and Mencius in the view of Legalists. Especially after centuries of capitalist baptism, I am afraid that which conscience belongs to conscience itself rather than to the second conscience which has been transformed. It can also lead to saliva wars.

He mentioned that "Chinese meekness is the product of compassion or genuine human wisdom, which comes not from reasoning, nor from instinct, but from compassion - from the power of compassion." It goes on to point out that "Chinese people have such a strong power of sympathy because they live a spiritual life completely or almost entirely, a life of affection or friendliness of human nature."

These two sentences seize the most sensitive and soft place in my heart in an instant, which is the vision I have been pursuing but never mentioned. Mr. Gu has clearly explained that Dao Dao has broken down every word for more than 100 years. It is amazing that the dialogue of thoughts can indeed go through time and space, produce resonance in the convergence place, and purge the soul.

In Mr. Gu's book, for the first time, I heard the view that Chinese people don't want religion. They don't have the need for religion. For the discussion of moral sense and religious sense, his idea is similar to that of "super moral values" mentioned in Mr. Feng Youlan's Brief History of Chinese Philosophy. I lamented that "Great minds think alike." It was a small discovery, and my heart was also happy. For a short time.

In Gu Hongming's view, Chinese traditional culture is the most valuable, and it is unwilling to witness its destruction in a thorough Westernization movement. In his view, Japan after the Meiji Restoration is the hope of the inheritance of Chinese traditional culture, so he should warn the Japanese that learning from the West is a sharp weapon to learn Western civilization, not to destroy their own morality, and further, to protect their own spirit from being destroyed. But this remark was the expectation of Gu Hongming for the Chinese people at that time.

After reading this book, it seems as if Mr. Gu had a long talk on his knees. He has a great sense of physical and mental clarity. Although Mr. Hu's remarks praised Chinese thought for destroying religions in other countries, his ability to cite classics, based on theoretical evidence, go deep and shallow, and break through one by one is indeed worth emulating.