自清初康熙皇帝断言西方传教士带来的西学“源出自中国,传及于极西”(《康熙政要》卷十八)后,几百年来“西学源于中学”说便一直薪传不绝,近代以来,更是蔚为大观。有趣的是,近代各不相同的政治、思想流派,却居然都宣扬“西学源于中学”,以为自己的主张服务。公认的早期改革者冯桂芬在《校邠庐抗议》中申明:“诸夷晚出,何尝不窃我绪余”。洋务首领、俗称“鬼子六”的恭亲王奕诉,则以此说反驳顽固派的责难:“查西术之借根,实本于中术之天元,彼西土目为东来法”,“中国创其法,西人袭之。”陈炽甚至大胆断定当秦汉中国大乱之际“必有 Since the beginning of the Qing Emperor Kangxi asserted that western missionaries brought Western learning “From China, Chuan Yu Yu Jixi” (“Kangxi Dictatorship” Volume 18), Hundreds of years of “Western Learning from Secondary School” have been paid Incessantly, since modern times, it is even more spectacular. What is interesting is that the political schools and schools of thought that have all been different in modern times all actually promote “western learning originates from secondary schools” in order to serve its own propositions. Recognized as an early reformer Feng Guifen affirmed in the “School House Lu Protest: The Prince of the Westernization, commonly known as the ”Prince of Devils VI,“ Prince Gong Yi v., Then use this to refute the caste of the diehards: ”The root of Chazis surgery, the actual in the surgery of Tianyuan, Pisit Tu soil for the East to France,“ ” China created its own law, attacked by Western people. “Chen Chi even boldly concluded that when the Qin and Han Dynasties China chaos” must have