 Whereas early Confucianism tends to find the relational elements of personhood in the human social world, early Daoism tends to find them in the world at large, especially beyond the human social world. Returning to the theme of correlative thinking, Daoism invites human beings to find their most fundamental being in the natural patterns that are more clearly evidenced in the nonhuman natural world and that tend to be obscured by developed human social orders and the conceptual oppositions embedded in them. People are invited to find their identities in harmonizing with natural forces. The neo-Confucians, in trying to establish the primacy of Confucianism over Daoism and Buddhism, incorporated some of the most powerful themes from these rival philosophies, as illustrated by Wang Yang-Ming’s declaration that human beings form one body with Heaven and Earth and the myriad things.