洋务运动从维护传统封建制度为目的的“自强”思潮发端 ,历经意欲取得实效的“求富”理路 ,最终发展为前瞻未来的“君民共治”取向。整个心路历程沿循着不以洋务派的主观目的而以客观历史规律———全球化的工业文明必然取代传统农业文明———的路向运演。在这个意义上 ,洋务派不自觉地充当了“历史的工具”。唯其如此 ,尽管洋务运动最终因跟不上历史潮流而被淘汰出局 (中日甲午战争宣告了它的失败 ) ,但它所达到的近代性高度———经济上的“工商为本”与政治上的“君民共治”并没有随之过时。相反 ,它们被下一个近代化运动———“戊戌变法”所继承 ,成为后者的历史逻辑起点。 The “self-improvement” trend of thought initiated by the Westernization Movement from the perspective of safeguarding the traditional feudal system started its pursuit of “enriching for the rich” after going through the process of seeking truth from facts, and finally developed into a future-oriented “rule of both the people and the people.” The whole journey followed the principle of not abandoning the traditional agricultural civilization by the objective law of history --- the industrial civilization of globalization inevitably replaced the traditional agricultural civilization. In this sense, the Westernizationists have unconsciously taken the role of “tools of history.” In spite of this, although the Westernization Movement was eventually eliminated because of its failure to keep up with the historical trend (the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 proclaimed its defeat), the high degree of modernity it has reached - economically “business-oriented” and The political “rule of the people and the people” did not follow the obsolescence. On the contrary, they were inherited by the next modernization movement, the “Reform Movement of 1898” and became the historical logic starting point of the latter.