“无财非贫,无学乃为贫……无子非孤,无德乃为孤。”这是清代文人王永彬在他的《围炉夜话》中,留下的一首中国文化人的绝唱。能不能这么说,这番话既是他个人的声音,又是他对两千多年来儒学孤傲精神的一种概括。时至今日,笔者重新咀嚼这段文化格言时,虽然感到其文掷地有声,但也感到这位清代文化长老的论述,有在儒学宝座的巅峰上坐而论道之嫌。笔者之所以这么评说,实因他从纯儒学的角度,把财富与文化、道德与人性做出了根本对立的诠注。笔者近读商务印书馆在上个世纪30年代出版的《中国商业史》,在序文中有一句一语中的的话:“中国自 ”No money is not poor, no learning is for the poor ... no children non-solitary, no virtue is for the lonely.“ This is the Qing Dynasty literati Wang Yongbin in his ”hearth night“ left a China Singing of cultural people. Can you say this? This remark is both his own voice and his general summary of the lofty spirit of Confucianism over two thousand years. Today, when I recast this cultural aphorism, I felt that the article was worth mentioning. However, I also felt that the exposition of the elders of the Qing culture was suspicious of sitting on the peak of Confucianism. The reason why I comment so, because he purely from the Confucian point of view, the wealth and culture, morality and human nature has made a fundamental antithesis. The author recently read Commercial Press in the 1930s published ”Chinese Business History,“ in the preface there is a phrase in the words: ”China from