More important still, it encouraged the habit of regarding intellectual activity as a delightful social adventure, not a cloistered meditation aiming at the preservation of a predetermined orthodoxy.

• 尤有进者，以读书论学为乐事，成为社会风尚，与经院中密室冥思大异其趣。前者，探无涯之知，后者不过神道设教冀其不坠而已。