VI. The Utility of Common Sense in Daily Life

VII. Power of Deduction

VIII. How to Acquire Common Sense

IX. Common Sense and Action

X. The Most Thorough Business Man

XI. Common Sense and Self-Control

XII. Common Sense Does Not Exclude Great Aspirations




LESSON I

COMMON SENSE: WHAT IS IT?


One beautiful evening, Yoritomo-Tashi was strolling in the gardens of
his master, Lang-Ho, listening to the wise counsels which he knew so
well how to give in all attractiveness of allegory, when, suddenly, he
paused to describe a part of the land where the gardener's industry was
less apparent.

Here parasitic plants had, by means of their tendrils, crept up the
shrubbery and stifled the greater part of its flowers.