实用、实学、实业:刘古愚格致救国思想的精髓

Practicality,Practical Learning, Industry:Liu Guyu's Essence of Thought to Save the Nation Through Science

刘古愚作为清末西北地区倡议维新的代表性人物,强化了自张载以来关学经世致用、不尚空谈、关注实际的作风。他崇尚实学,讲求实用,主张洞悉西方政治,学习西方工艺,兴学以救国之贫弱。主讲味经书院期间,开设西方格致课程,创办陕西最早的期刊;奏设味经刊书处,刊印西学和科技书籍;筹建织布局,兴办实业,效法西方制造日用之器。刘古愚以其实用、实学、实业为核心的格致救国思想影响着西北士子和普通大众,培养了一批近代史上颇具影响力的西北乡贤,为新时代的到来积聚了力量。

Liu Guyu, as a representative of initiative reform figure in the northwest in the late Qing Dynasty, strengthened the style of ever-lasting usefulness, no empty talk, and the focus on practicality. He advocated practical learning, practical ideas, and insight into the western politics to study Western industrial techniques and establish schools in order to save the nation from poverty. During his teaching career in Weijing Academy, he opened the Western science courses, initiated the first periodical in Shaanxi, set up Journal and Book Service Center in Weijing Academy, printed western scientific books, built the fabric-weaving factory, founded industrial businesses, and imitated the west to produce daily necessities. Liu Guyu took practicality, practical learning, and industry as the core of the scientific thought to save the nation by affecting northwest scholars and the general public and by cultivating a group of modern history influential talents in the northwest for the purpose of accumulating strength for the new era.