读元化先生的新著《清园近思录》，知思想的来路，主要可分为两途：一是源于书面文本的阅读；一是源于思想者的生命体验。 这种来自后一途的思想，我们从元化先生这本新著中是可以找出一个相当的数量的。这一点，已被不少元化先生的热心读者所看出。元化先生曾提到，他的一位友 Mr. Yuan Yuanhua’s new book, “The Book of Recalling the Qing Yuan,” and the way of knowing thoughts, can be divided into two parts: one is reading from written texts; the other is from the experience of thinkers. This kind of thought from a later stage, we can find a considerable number of this new book by Mr. Yuanhua. This has been seen by many eager readers of Mr. Yuanhua. Mr. Yuanhua once mentioned that one of his friends