unparalleled in history (unparallelled)
That the two things are "neither one nor two different things."
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Ryuki himself used the analogy of "firewood and fire," and indeed it would have been nonsense (at the time) to think of a state where only fire existed without firewood. (Burnable goods) But firewood without fire exists, and in modern times we have lighter fires, etc.
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