His former name was Hu Hongxing. In this school he got a chance to read Evolution and Ethics translated by Yan Fu. He was inspired by Naturalism and saw that in this world "it is not the strongest of the species that survive, but the one most responsive to change." This sentence from Darwin's book gave birth to a new name of a master in modern intellectual history of China——Hu Shih (in Chinese "shih" means "responsive to change").