提起“历史人物”一词,人们大概首先会想起那些叱咤风云、扭转乾坤的大英雄。然而依照现代观念,一个个体生命之所以能在人类历史长河中占据一席之地,首先并不在于他建立了何种辉煌一时的功业,而在于他能把握住时代的脉搏,及时准确地捕捉到那些在较长时段内人类群体需要解决的历史问题。从这个标准出发,一介书生梁漱溟便可称得上是本世纪中国的 Mention the “historical figures”, people probably will first think of those masterful, turn things around. However, according to the modern concept, the reason why an individual life can occupy a position in the long history of mankind lies not in the first moment in what brilliant career he has established, but in grasping the pulse of the times and catching those who are in Historical issues to be solved by human groups for a longer period of time. Starting from this standard, a scholar Liang Shuming can be called this century China