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"By nature, literary and martial skills are a single virtue,
and they are not separate from each other. Just as the creation
of heaven and earth, completed in a single breath, has two elements
of yin and yang, so human nature, made of a single virtue, has two
elements of 'literary' and 'martial'. This means that having literary
skills without having martial skills is not truly being literary,
and having martial skills without having literary skills is not
truly being martial. Just as yin is the root of yang, and yang the
root of yin, literary skills are the root of martial skills, and
martial skills the root of literary skills."
Nakae Toju (1608 - 48)
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