但凡学术大师，大抵都有一双法眼。世俗学者知人论事，多半是依据资格轩轻高下，因为他们没有能力洞察秋毫。而大师的本事，是在一个人未成气候之前就预知他的未来。当年胡适、傅斯年在邓广铭先生未出茅庐之时就对他期许很高，那就是一种大师的眼光。后来邓先生曾不止一次地对 Whenever academic masters, there are probably a pair of eyes. Secular scholars know the people, mostly based on qualifications, because they do not have the ability to insight into the future. The great master’s skill is to foretell his future before a man becomes mad. In those days Hu Shih, Fu Sinian gave a high expectation to him when Mr. Tang Guangming was out of the fuss, and that was a master’s eye. Later, Mr. Deng had been more than once