Ts'ai Yuan-p'ei, the erstwhile education minister, held the theory that art "purifies" the soul and that Greek statues are perfectly innocent in their beauty.
教育家蔡元培當年挺身而出，保住了人體寫生課程的存在；他還提出「淨化」的說法，倡言藝術可以淨化心靈、希臘雕刻有純淨無邪的美…… 云云。