以墨学收回国魂——论辛亥革命前几年学者何以高度崇墨学

To Get Back National Soul by Mohism——On the reason scholars' Mohism revival during former several years before the Revolution of 1911

以往的研究,多以为墨学之所以在晚清得以复兴,是因为中国社会已发展到了迫切需要知识理性与科学技术的时代,中国人迫切需要知识理性启蒙。但通过对辛亥革命前几年公开发表的崇墨学论著的具体分析,可以发现,在辛亥革命前几年间已兴起了一定程度的"崇墨学"之思潮,而此思潮的兴起,就目的讲,本不为学术计,即不是从知识理性启蒙的意义上倡言墨学如何有开心智之作用,而是为政治计,即从"救亡图存"的意义上倡言墨学如何具有保国保族保种的现实意义与作用。

We used to think that the revival of Mohism in the late Qing dynasty is for the urgent need for rationalism as the Chinese people were crying for rational enlightenment at that time. This article is based on the Mohism works published several years before the Revolution of 1911, with the view that Mohism revived at that time and was not academic but political, that is, it was not for intellectual enlightenment but for saving the nation from extinction by keeping her soul.