Through such "discovery," readers became to have an impression that the origin of international law and Confucianism had affinity with each other and, as a result, "bankoku koho" (modern international law) was accepted as one with global "universality" including China.
「発見」によって、国際法の法源と儒教とは親和性を持つかのような印象を読者に与え、その結果「万国公法」（＝近代国際法）は中華も含めた世界規模の「普遍性」を持ったものとして受容されていった。