Interestingly, Sun Yat-sen had admitted to the two that his Plans for National Reconstruction were "easier said than done" while they were visiting him in Shanghai with Dewey the week after May 4.
諷刺的是，前一年，五四發生一周後，兩人還陪同杜威造訪當時人也在上海的國父孫中山先生，談到《建國方略》的實業計畫時，孫文還告訴他們「知易行難」… …。