"But he who judges by appearances never rejoices in the possession of that faculty which may be called reason in imagination.
"This is a gift, developed by practical sense and which common sense happily directs in right channels.
"Those who are endowed with this faculty can, with the help of reasoning, and by means of thought, build up a future reality based on a judgment whose affirmation admits of no doubt.
"It is not a question of hypothesis, no matter how well-founded it is.
"Experience, in this case, is united with deduction to form a preconceived but certain idea.
"By cultivating practical sense, we shall escape the danger of idealization which, with people of unbalanced mentality, often sheds an artificial light upon the picture."
There is still another point to which Yoritomo calls our attention, in order to encourage us to cultivate the twin reasoning powers whose advantages we are trying to commend in this chapter:
"Practical sense," says he, "sometimes puts common sense apparently in the wrong, while acting, however, without the inspiration of the latter.
"This happens when it is an advantage, for the perfect equilibrium of the projects in question, that it should be maintained at the same pitch, in order that it may be understood by all.
"In the legendary days, snow the color of fire once fell on the inhabitants of a little village, who were all about to attend a religious ceremony.