对于“洋务运动之所以失败,在于它企图以不改变原有体制为前提去学习西方”的观点,袁伟时教授认为:这个论断过于笼统。但“改变原有体制”的内涵如指的是系统改造原有社会运行机制,那自然不无道理。换句话说,问题不在于曾国藩、李鸿章、恭亲王等人应不应该发动洋务自强运动,而 For the reason why the “Westernization Movement failed because it sought to learn from the West without changing its original system”, Professor Yuan Weishi thinks: This argument is too general. However, the meaning of “changing the original system” refers to systematically reforming the original social operating mechanism. Naturally, it is not unreasonable. In other words, the problem is not that Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang, Prince Gong and others should not launch self-strengthening foreign affairs,