在传统儒家礼义道德下成长起来的有着浓厚夷夏之防的四库馆臣们,面对中西文明碰撞冲突100多年,西学走入各阶层的事实,以及乾隆希冀总结西学来确立西学导向的意志,抉择下“节取其技能,禁传其学术”的方针。即否定西学的学理,采纳西方的科技,并认为西学本源自中学。 Facing the fact that the clashes between China and the West were more than 100 years old and the West went into all walks of life under the moral tradition of Confucianism, Will, choice under the “Festival skills, Prohibition of its academic” approach. That denied the western theory, the adoption of Western science and technology, and that Western origin from secondary school.