六十三年前,瞿秋白在他那篇著名的《〈鲁迅杂感选集〉序言》中,曾把鲁迅比喻为希腊神话中的莱谟斯——一位狼的乳汁喂养大的英雄。这是一个确当并为鲁迅本人所首肯的比喻;因为鲁迅虽然出身于绅士阶级,却从中国劳苦大众的母体上吮取着精神养分。他涤除了几千年封建专制制度给中国传统知识分子铸就 Sixty-three years ago, Qu Qiubai, in his famous preface to the Selected Works of Lu Xun, compared Lu Xun to the Greek mythology of Lime Si, a wolf’s milk-fed hero. This is an accurate metaphor of Lu Xun’s own approval; for although Lu Xun came from a gentry class, he sucked the spiritual nutrients from the mother of the laboring masses in China. He removed thousands of years of feudal autocracy to the Chinese traditional intellectuals cast