戊戌变法时期 (1895年即光绪二十一年至 1898年即光绪二十四年 )的三年时间 ,严复正在天津担任北洋水师学堂总办 (校长 ) ,对他来说 ,这段时期是他一生中最重要的时期 ,可以说是他的黄金时期。就在这三年里 ,他翻译了多部西方资本主义的名著 ,并发表了许多主张学习西方资本主义制度的论文 ,使他成为中国近代史上一位著名的资产阶级启蒙思想家。他以英国为研究对象 ,学习富强之道 ,从事政治、经济与社会等制度的探讨 ,从而提出了反对君主专制的鲜明的民主思想 ,于是震聋发聩 ,影响了从旧民主主义革命到新民主主义革命的几代知识分子 ,他们先后拍案而起 ,在中国大地上演出了从维新到革命的一系列壮烈画卷 In the three years of the Reform Movement of 1898 (1895 Guangxu twenty-one years to 1898 Guangxu twenty-four years), Yan Fuzheng served in Tianjin as the general manager of the Northern Navy School (principals), for him, this period is The most important period of his life, can be said that his golden age. In these three years, he translated many famous books on western capitalism and published many essays on studying the system of western capitalism, making him one of the famous bourgeois enlightenment thinkers in modern Chinese history. Taking Britain as the research object, studying the prosperous road and engaging in the discussion of the political, economic and social systems, he put forward the distinct democratic idea of ​​opposing monarchy. Therefore, he was shocked by deafness and influenced the transition from the old democratic revolution to the new one Several generations of the democratic revolutions intellectuals who have started to shoot the case and have staged a series of heroic pictures of reformation and revolution on the land of China