张謇先生对南通早期现代化建设的失败是历史的必然。实业救国的局限性及生产力的落后注定了南通早期现代化建设的悲剧结局,但“急进务广”的主观失策、社会责任的过度承担及天灾人祸的出现也加速了其早期现代化的失败,并造就了这位“伟大而失败的英雄”。 Mr. Zhang Jian’s failure of Nantong’s early modernization is a historical necessity. The limitations of industrial salvation and the backwardness of productive forces are doomed to the tragic ending of Nantong’s early modernization. However, the subjective failure of “rapid progress in service”, the excessive commitment of social responsibility and the appearance of natural and man-made disasters have also accelerated the failure of its early modernization. And created this “hero of great and failed ”.