正德厚生臻于至善。 魏源与《海国图志》 19世纪的最后几十年里，鸦片战争的失败使中国一部分 知识分子认识到，中国在很多方面存在不足，这批知识分 子成为中国向西方学习的先驱。他们著书立说，向中国普 通民众介绍西方国家，宣传西方文化，其中魏源的《海国 图志》影响较大。 In the last decades of the 19th century many Chinese intellectuals came to the conclusion that China lagged far behind the West.It was these intellectuals who formed the pioneers of studying the West and they took it upon themselves to disseminate knowledge of the West among ordinary Chinese.One such work that was to have a significant impact was the Haiguo Tuzhi (Illustrated Survey of Foreign Nations)by Wei Yuan /(1794-1857).魏源与《海国图志》 19世纪的最后几十年里，鸦片战争的失败使中国一部分 知识分子认识到，中国在很多方面存在不足，这批知识分 子成为中国向西方学习的先驱。他们著书立说，向中国普 通民众介绍西方国家，宣传西方文化，其中魏源的《海国 图志》影响较大。 In the last decades of the 19th century many Chinese intellectuals came to the conclusion that China lagged far behind the West. It was these intellectuals who formed the pioneers of studying the West and they took it upon themselves to disseminate knowledge of the West among ordinary Chinese. One such work that was to have a significant impact was the Haiguo Tuzhi (Illustrated Survey of Foreign Nations) by Wei Yuan (1794–1857)