When translating and introducing works of western thoughts,YAN Fu tried to find out cultural overlap between eastern and western thoughts,hence he advanced a completely new viewpoint in his Lao Zi Review\|There were democratic and scientific thoughts in Lao Zi,which was quite similar with contemporary western politics and philosophy.At the same time,he put forward the opinion that a certain civilization,when developed to a certain extent,would bring forward disaster to the society.Thus his thoughts switched from respecting western t...