我在《薛焕与王闿运》一文中,对王的学术思想、教育思想与他的办学方式曾作了一些介绍,还来不及对他的政治与社会态度作深入研究。王是一个多方面的人才,与清末民初的各种政治势力均有一些关系。从上层人物曾国藩、彭雪琴、袁世凯、谭延闿,下到地方上的瞿鸿机、王先谦、叶焕彬均有来往,有的还十分紧密。王的功名只是一个举人,却能做到被各方敬仰,最后做了国史馆馆长的高官,纯学术概括不了他的一生。他自称是学纵横术的,马积高先生曾说他“虽重经术,而好纵横之计,有坼弛之风”~①,这点很对。在许多诗文中,他也高唱“山林归隐”。但他在解释《论语·里仁》“贫与贱,是人之所恶也,不以其道得 In my article ”Xue Huan and Wang Wan-yun,“ I made some introductory remarks on Wang's academic thoughts, educational thoughts and his methods of running schools. It was too late to study his political and social attitudes in depth. Wang is a multi-faceted talent and has some relations with various political forces in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republican period. From the top figures Zeng Guofan, Peng Xueqin, Yuan Shikai, Tan Yan, down to the local Qu Hongji, Wang Xianqian, Ye Huanbin have contacts, and some very close. Wang's fame is just a lord, but can be admired by all parties, and finally made a director of the National History Museum officials, pure academic can not sum up his life. He claimed to be learning altruism, and Mr. Ma Jigao once said that he was ”right after surgery, but a good measure, there is a relaxation of the wind“ ”, which is right. In many poems, he also sings “Guilin”. However, he explained that “the Analects of Confucius,” "poverty and cheap, is a bad thing people do, not by virtue