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History has pushed mediocrity to a high level.
This sentence comes from the biography of Li Hongzhang written by Liang Qichao.

This sentence is translated as follows:

Throughout the world, only ordinary people have neither shortcomings nor advantages. If anyone can make the whole world hate him, he must be a world-famous adulterer. If someone can make the whole world love him, he must be an extraordinary hero. However, there are many people in the world, most of whom are ordinary people, and less than 1% are unusual people. Can you see the feasibility of evaluating unusual people by the standards of ordinary people? Therefore, people all over the world are not necessarily good people; People who are vilified by the whole world are not necessarily real great men.

Extended data:

Biography of Li Hongzhang is a book written by Liang Qichao. From Li Hongzhang's early years, he wrote that he participated in the suppression of the Taiping Army and the Sino-Japanese War, founded the Westernization Movement, and lived in the world diplomatic arena until his death.

The author compares Li Hongzhang with Huo Guang, Zhuge Liang, Qin Gui, Zeng Guofan, Zhang Zhidong, Bismarck and Ito Bowen. And pointed out that Li Hongzhang also has the heart to devote himself to death and can bear the burden of humiliation, but he has no long-term vision, does not know how to make a century-old plan for future generations, and is only satisfied with tinkering. In a word, his failure is also the failure of the late Qing government, and it is the inevitable result of the late Qing government's ignorance of world trends and democratic politics.

Liang Qichao (1873- 1929), a native of Xinhui, Guangdong, was a famous political activist, enlightenment thinker, bourgeois propagandist, educator, historian and writer in modern China, and one of the leaders of the Reform Movement of 1898. The word Zhuoru, whose real name is Rengong, is the owner of posthumous title Ice House, the ice drinker, the mourner, the citizen of New China, and the owner of free fasting. He is the author of Drinking Rooms, and his representative works include Biography of Li Hongzhang, Academic Introduction of Qing Dynasty, Academic History of China in Recent 300 Years, and China Historical Research Law.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-biography of Li Hongzhang