The connection of the two is necessary to the production of any one substantial thing. The yang originates a shadowy outline which the yin fills up with definite substance.
Furthermore, the bright or active element and the dark or inactive are in the original, the yang and the yin. The correspondence predicted between them and the sun and moon, the brightness and warmth of the one, and the paleness and coldness of the other, shows us how those names arose, and that it is foreign to the original concept of them to call them the male and female principles.
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