严复的新权威主义主张在政治上实行君主立宪的中央集权强权统治,在经济上发展资本主义。但是,当他用这种思想来理解和观察具有明显新权威主义特征的袁世凯过渡性强权统治时,却表现出一种犹豫不决、忸怩暧昧、前后矛盾、迷茫彷徨的态度。这充分说明在清末民初复杂而诡秘的政治形势下,严复始终没有找到恰当的新权威主义权威象征符号和理想的政治强人,但给新权威主义的后继者提供了重要启示。 Yan Fu’s new authoritarianism advocates the implementation of a centralized political power of monarchy in politics and the economic development of capitalism. However, when he used this kind of thinking to understand and observe the transitional authority of Yuan Shikai, which has obviously new features of authoritarianism, he showed a hesitant, ambiguous, ambivalent and confused attitude. This fully shows that in complex and secretive political situations in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republican period, Yan Fu never found the appropriate symbol authority and ideal political strongman of the new authoritarianism, but provided an important revelation to the new authoritarian successor.