Yamaji claimed that "literature is a form of enterprise... and unless it closely relates to human life, it too is an emptiness within an emptiness... literature is fact and that is why we should respect it."
山路が「文章即ち事業なり。......もし世を益せずんば空の空なるのみ。文章は事実なるがゆえに崇むべし」と論じた。