Firstly, it would have fanned the flames of the non-KMT democratic movement and would have continued the liberal spirit expressed by Lei Chen and Yin Haikuang in Free China Fort nightly. However, if this had been the case, Lu's relationship with the KMT would have become more difficult and the book would have been unlikely to have seen the light of day in Taiwan.
第一，應當會為台灣黨外的民主運動燃點火苗，並與雷震、殷海光「自由中國」以降綿延不斷的自由主義精神先後輝映。但果真如此，陸鏗和國民黨政權的恩怨就愈扯愈不清，更遑論把書在台北出版了。