严复是近代中国人中学习和传播西方资本主义社会新文化的杰出代表。享有最重要的资产阶级启蒙思想家的美誉。他留学西方,目睹了资本主义社会的物质文明和社会实情,阅读了许多原版的资产阶级理论著作,就对资本主义的西方社会了解的深广度而言,他堪称当时中国第一人。严 Yan Fu is an outstanding representative of modern Chinese learning and spreading the new culture of Western capitalist society. Enjoy the reputation of the most important bourgeois enlightenment thinker. He studied in the West, witnessed the material civilization and social facts in capitalist society, read many original bourgeois theoretical works, and was the first Chinese person in terms of the depth of his understanding of capitalist Western society. strict