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| | Ancient Dynasties: II |
 | | There were to be accretions to the corpus of Confucian thought, both immediately and over the millennia, and from within and outside the Confucian school. |
 | | The theories of this school attempted to explain the universe in terms of basic forces in nature, the complementary agents of yin (dark, cold, female, negative) and yang (light, hot, male, positive) and the five elements (water, fire, wood, metal, and earth). |
 | | Although Moism failed to establish itself as a major school of thought, its views are said to be "strongly echoed" in Legalist thought. |
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