《國故論衡》是研究章太炎學術思想發展的一部重要著作，〈原學〉是其中比較重要的一篇，該篇文字布列於諸子學九篇之首，雖然篇幅不大，但卻體現出了這一時期章太炎學術思想發展的變遷軌跡。在這篇短小精悍的文字中，章太炎區分了文化產生的方式，大致劃分了文化的種類，並且對這些文化的形態進行了比較深刻的剖析和評價。在此基礎之上，章太炎認為未來中國文化的發展不應當盲目走上西化的道路，而要立足於總結、保存固有文化的同時，正確的引入西學，以彌補國學的不足，促進中國文化步入獨立發展的軌道。雖然章太炎的觀點存在不足，但是無論在當時，或是在現今，他的文化發展觀點亦帶有較強的參考價值。

The Theses About Ancient Chinese Literature Search is one of important books of Zhang Taiyan. Original Learning is one of paper in this book, the length of this paper is not too long, but through this paper we can catch the clue of developing of Zhang's learning thought. In this paper, Zhang divided the ways of culture's born into several kinds and researched each way very carefully and critically. Next, Zhang believed that in future, China's culture should develop in its own way, but not westernization. The best choice was that we need to preserve the nature of native traditional culture, absorb the useful parts of modern western culture in order to make up for defects of ancient Chinese literature. However, Zhang's view was not too perfect to foresee the future, but either in its own time, or at present, his point would not obsolete.