Yesterday I read the highly laudable article under subject title at http://blog.udn.com/Horace2007/18964671.  Before I am going to write my own comments towards the topic, I would like to recommend the author's at the end of his work.  Quote 結語

筆者在1978年9月首次閱畢本書，就深深感受到民國初年青年憂國憂民的愛國熱忱，雖然少年中國學會後來因為會員主張路線不同而瓦解，但其報國壯志是一樣的。在近40年後的今天，重新研讀本書，再次從字裡行間領會不同的思維，依然有當年的感動。中華民國政府敗退台灣已超過半世紀，中華人民共和國在中國大陸也已主政六十幾年，兩岸各自的發展是否已讓中國少年？又現代的年輕人是否「皆具先民敦厚之風，常懷改革社會之志」，是否有「振作少年精神，研究真實學問，發展社會事業，轉移末世風俗。」這樣的理想呢？我想答案依然會是見仁見智，而且老實說，答案是什麼對台灣社會來說，好像也不是那麼重要的。UNQUOTE

After World War One, four big, old-established empires collapsed: Deutschland, Austro-hungary, Russia, and Ottoman Turk.  Eventually they all went to republics, but all of them had endured long, difficult process of reform and adaption.  Earlier than they were, much older China(Qing) Empire was overthrown and Republic of China was founded.  How could the new "Republic" rectify the anachronistic legacies of ills that had left over and bring herself to modernization? 

The founding of "Society of Young China"(the founders might have so named their group by the inspiration of "Young Turks") represented the zeitgest or climate of that time, the time synchronized with May Fourth Movement out of which young people were zealously searching for the ways to save China.  The original members gradually divided into two groups due to different lines: Nationalism and Communiism.  Unlike later KMT, those Nationalists espoused hard-line nationalism and founded Youth Party.  Like 王光祈, the genuine nationalists had little political clout; nevertheless, they had done a lot of prtriotic deed, silently. 

You guys may not know that when KMT fleed to Taiwan, Youth Party, as well as another time-honored "Democratic Socialists' Party of China", came to the island, too.  Though leaders of Youth Party such as 曾琦, 李璜, 左舜生, and 張君勱 of Democratic Socialists' Party of China are all highly respectable gentlemen and scholars, still they are unable to turn the fate of their parties to have become the political ornaments in Taiwan. 

P.S.  Thanks again, Horace.