梁启超在《论小说与群治之关系》一文中,视小说为一切文化革新的工具,把文学从工具性命题上升到了因果关系性命题,并认识到了小说的艺术手段、美学塑造等美学问题,从其文学观念的发展过程来看,该文的发表是其文学启蒙思想成熟的标志。 In his article “On the Relationship between Fiction and Group Governance,” Liang Qichao regarded novels as a tool for all cultural innovations, raising literary from instrumental proposition to causal relation proposition and recognizing aesthetics issues such as artistic means and aesthetics of novels The development of its literary concept of view, the publication of the article marks the maturity of its literary enlightenment.