一“20世纪是鲁迅的世纪,21世纪是胡适的世纪。”在有篇悼念李慎之的文章中,作者回忆李慎之曾如是说。作者称:“慎之可能是在现代中国从政治范畴重新提出自由主义的第一人。胡适是中国最早的也是最著名的自由主义者”。“关于胡适与鲁迅,这两年我们多次谈起。我感觉到他思想上有一个发展的过程,他越来越看重胡适,对胡适的评价越来越高了。” “The 20th century was the century of Lu Xun and the 21st century was the century of Hu Shih.” In an essay on memorials to Li Shenzhi, the author recalled what Li Shenzhi once said. The author states: “Prudence may be the first person to reintroduce liberalism from the political realm in modern China, where Hu Shi was the earliest and most famous liberal in China.” As for Hu Shi and Lu Xun, we talked about many times in these two years and I felt that he had a developing process in his mind. He is getting more and more emphasis on Hu Shi and his evaluation of Hu Shi is getting higher and higher.