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严耕望:中国史学界的朴实楷模

    ①1973—1975年,严耕望是哈佛燕京社的访问学人。那时他已在中古政治制度史的领域内卓然成家。但在这期间,他仍然孜孜不倦地苦读。每天早晨在图书馆前面等着开门,下午图书馆关门,他才离开。1979年春,严耕望应聘到耶鲁大学历史系担任访问教授。和哈佛时代一样,他天天早到晚退,伏案用劝。哈佛和耶鲁两度共学,我亲身体认到耕望是将全副生命献给学问的人,真正达到了“造次必于是,颠沛必于是”的境界。他自己曾明白说过,他一生从不求多赚一分钱,也不想增加一分知名度,因此避开任何不必要的活动,以免浪费宝贵的光阴。1979年他在耶鲁的期间,正值大陆社会科学院代表团前来访问,我在家中接待代表团,邀请耕望与会,但他婉辞了,因为他坚守其“避开任何不必要的活动”的原则。这种“澹泊自甘、寂寞自守”的性格和他治学的勇猛精进、锲而不舍,恰好互为表里、刚柔相济。

    ②耕望的生命虽然彻底地与学问合一,但他既不是不晓事的书呆子,更无世人想象中那种专家学者的傲僻。相反的,在日常生活中,他是一个最通情达理并且随时随地为别人着想的人。无论是对他的家人、师友、学生或同事,他都抱着一份诚挚的情意:任何人曾对他有过一点帮助,他都永志不忘。关于这一点,我们只要读他那些大著作的序跋,便可以获得生动的印证。在学问方面,他一向持严格的标准,决不稍有假借。然而他在摘发别人的失误时却从无例外地隐去失误者的名字。他曾说,他一向以道家自处而以儒家待人,这是恰如其分的自我解剖。他从不争浮名和权位,对于物质生活的要求也低到无可再低,宾四师说他的性格“似为柔退”,这些确可以说是近于道家的,然而也未尝不与儒家相合。他平常表现在外的是“柔逊”,但在大原则上却持之甚坚,内心自有不可逾越的尺度。

    ③耕望的研究领域是制度史和历史地理。他的著作无一不从规模浩大、笼罩全面的研究中产生。以《中国地方行政制度史》而言,表面上看来似为一种概括式的专史,但认真的读者一定会发现,书中每一章每一节都有精密考证的创获。不过他所做的是地毯式的全面考证,而不像多数考证那样,只是蜻蜓点水式的。全面考证必须建立在两个先决条件之上:第一,事前有周密的通盘计划,第二,从计划到执行需要长时期的持续努力。据我的大略估计,《中国地方行政制度史》的完成先后越二十年;《唐代交通图考》更是惊人,几乎是半个世纪了。耕望的著作初看好像只是中国传统考证史学的延续,其实由于他一直注意现代社会科学的新观点,他的论断已不是传统史学所能范围。他的《中国地方行政制度史•秦汉卷》便已参考了一部《各国地方政府》的中译本,《唐仆尚丞郎表》从传统一方面看固可说与清代徐松《登科记考》同属一类而精密过之。

    ④耕望论现代中国史学家,特别推崇陈垣、陈寅恪、吕思勉和宾四师为“四大家”。他于四大家的优点则能兼收并揽:他的规模弘大承自宾四师,辨析入微取诸陈寅恪,平实稳健尤似陈垣,有计划而持之以恒则接武吕思勉。他在史学上终能达到通博与专精相反相成的境界绝不是幸致的。

    ⑤苏东坡说:“非才之难,所以自用者实难!”现代中国史学界没有人比耕望更能自用其才的了。陆象山说:“今天下学者,惟有两途:一途朴实,一途议论。”耕望木讷寡言,终其身与“议论”无缘,他走的是彻头彻尾的“朴实”的道路。

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    Next time a customer comes to your office, offer him a cup of coffee. And when you're doing your holiday shopping online, make sure you're holding a large glass of iced tea. The physical sensation (感觉) of warmth encourages emotional (情感的) warmth, while a cold drink in hand prevents you from making unwise decisions—those are the practical lesson being drawn from recent research by psychologist (心理学家) John A. Bargh.

    Psychologists have known that one person's perception (感知) of another's “warmth” is a powerful determiner in social relationships. Judging someone to be either “warm” or “cold” is a primary consideration, even trumping evidence that a “cold” person may be more capable (能干的). Much of this is rooted in very early childhood experiences, Bargh argues, when babies' sense of the world around them is shaped by physical sensations, particularly warmth and coldness.

    Feelings of “warmth” and “coldness” in social judgments appear to be universal. Although no worldwide study has been done, Bargh says that describing people as “warm” or “cold” is common to many cultures, and studies have found those perceptions influence judgment in dozens of countries.

    To test the relationship between physical and psychological warmth, Bargh conducted an experiment which involved 41 college students. A research assistant who was unaware of the study's hypotheses (假设), handed the students either a hot cup of coffee, or a cold drink, to hold while the researcher filled out a short information form: The drink was then handed back. After that, the students were asked to rate the personality of “Person A” based on a particular description. Those who had briefly held the warm drink regarded Person A as warmer than those who had held the iced drink.

    “We are grounded in our physical experiences even when we think abstractly (抽象的),” says Bargh.

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    Open work spaces definitely have their benefits,but they come with the drawback of offering employees little to no control over visual distractions(干扰).With so many people around and so much going on,some of us can easily get disturbed by this information overload and lose focus in what's really important.That's where the Focus Cap comes into play.

    “As we are still cavemen or mammals kept in an unnatural environment,I believe that only by reclaiming(收回)the normal,stress-free human state through simple tools and techniques can we finally release our actual creative potential and create our meaningful work for a brighter future,”says German designer Hannes Greblin,inventor of the Focus Cap.

    After looking at other products designed at minimizing visual distractions,Greblin decided that most of them were either too expensive or too uncomfortable to become mainstream,so he decided to go with something much simpler —a simple cap with a retractable visor(可伸缩的帽沿).

    Greblin's Focus Cap is really straightforward.You just wear it like a regular cap'with the sides of the visor retracted,and just collapse the sides whenever you need to focus on what's ahead of you.Whether you're trying to focus on a task in an open work office.Trying to study at university,or practicing yoga in a park and trying to ignore stares from strangers,the Focus Cap can help.

    To be honest,this whole project sounds like a joke,but the Focus Cap does have its own website where people interested in this unusual accessory can actually sign up for updates on when it will go on sale.Greblin claims it will cost 30 euros($37)plus shipping.