My point is that Hsun-tzu is a much stronger thinker than either Machiavelli or Hobbes, who are considered the founders of modern political science. It's just that we of a later generation haven't lived up to our ancestors by adapting their thought to the new environment produced after the contact of Eastern and Western culture.
我要強調的是，荀子思想，比被尊為現代政治學開山祖師的馬基維利或霍布斯強太多了，只不過我們後代子孫不肖，未能予以詮釋，以因應東西文化接觸以後的新環境，令人相當遺憾。