2. Source: To Graduates 1932 by modern Hu Shi.
My friends, when you are most pessimistic and disappointed, it is the time when you must summon up strong confidence. You should believe that there is no futile effort. I don't have to be responsible for success, but I don't have to contribute my skills. We may not succeed, but our efforts will never be in vain. )。
4. Analysis: Everyone should make the greatest contribution to the revolutionary cause, but the success of the revolutionary cause is not necessarily in my hands, not necessarily during my term of office, nor necessarily in my lifetime. This is the lofty realm of life. Only when a person forgets himself for his career and abandons the ego for the sake of the "big ego" can he achieve "I don't have to succeed".
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Hu Shi is one of the most influential thinkers and scholars in China in the last century. Although his influence has negative elements, its main aspect is positive progress. This is because he advocated democracy, free thought and rationalism all his life.
It is this kind of thinking that has helped many young people to establish an independent and free personality, form a way of thinking independently and respecting facts, and become people with democratic and scientific literacy. It can be said that Hu Shi contributed to the growth of democratic forces in China after the May 4th Movement.