浙籍绅商在20世纪初年的浙江铁路风潮中既充当了反对英殖民者攘夺中国路权的主角，与清政府形成尖锐的对立和冲突，表现出较强的革命性；同时又对清廷心存幻想，惧怕民众暴动，千方百计将风潮限定在“文明发展”的轨道，从而呈现出极为明显的软弱性。这种软弱性除了源于阶级本质外，更为重要的是与近代浙江相对发达的经济条件和人文环境密切相关。 In the early 20th century, the Zhejiang-based gentry merchants not only acted as the protagonists opposing the British colonists’ ruling the road to China, but also formed sharp antagonisms and conflicts with the Qing government, showing strong revolutionaryness. At the same time, The Qing court, with its fantasies and fears of popular insurrections, tried every possible means to limit the trend to the path of “civilized development,” thus showing a remarkably obvious weakness. Apart from the nature of the class, this kind of weakness is more importantly related to the relatively developed economic conditions and humanistic environment in modern Zhejiang.