Hu Shi: Now We Are Back
by Han Shishan
About This Novel
This is a passage Hu Shi wrote in his diary on March 8, 1917. It is marked as line 125 of chapter 18 of "The Iliad". He did not take it directly from the book. The diary states that before the religious reform movement in Britain in the 19th century began, its future leaders, Newman, Froude, and Keble, had long hoped to reform religion. The three of them combined their religious poems into a volume, and Newman used this line from Homer's poem as the topic. The meaning is as follows: "Now that we are back, please wait and see what happens." The diary also said that this can also be a pioneer flag for our generation of overseas students. Many years later, when Hu Shi retranslated this sentence again, he made slight changes.
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