严复从国家富强的角度出发,以西学理论为基础,以西方的实际发展为依据,提出了“鼓民力”、“开民智”、“新民德”的“三民”学说,并将其作为改造国民劣根性,实现人的近代化的具体途径,在中国近代社会产生深远影响。不但将变法维新运动推向更深层次,而且在社会上掀起了一股声势浩大的再造国民性思潮,对中国近代人文精神的重建具有划时代的意义。 Based on the theory of Western learning and based on the actual development in the West, Yan Fu proposed “three civilizations” such as “people’s power of democracy,” “people’s wisdom,” “new people’s morality,” " Doctrine, and regard it as a concrete way to transform the inferiority of the people and realize the modernization of the people, which will have a profound impact on the modern society in China. Not only has the reform and reform movement been pushed to a deeper level, but it has also created a tremendous trend of recreating the national character in the society and is of epoch-making significance for the reconstruction of the modern humanistic spirit in China.