This dispute indicated that Aizan regarded literature in the same light as politics, and showed that he thought no lines should be drawn between a person's purpose and the nation's, and that ideas were useless unless they were followed by actions.
この論争は、愛山が文学と政治を同一視し、さらには個人と国家の目的を分けようとしないこと、思想とは行動を引き起こさなければ無益であると考えていることを示した。