He was, however, also an innovator and someone willing to challenge the status quo, and despite being in geographically tiny Singapore, he always had his eyes on the global picture, always watching the colonial and global situations.
另一方面，他又是勇於突破，敢於挑戰、創新，而且他雖身在彈丸之地新加坡，卻有放眼世界的胸襟，對英殖民地的社會現實和全球大勢都有敏銳的觀察。