"This sense discerns an important quality, which puts us on our guard against the danger of certain theories, whose brilliancy might seduce us.
"It is the moral sense which indicates to us the point of delimitation separating legitimate concessions from forbidden license.
"It allows us to go as far as the dangerous place where the understanding with conscience might become compromised and, by reasoning, proves to us that there would be serious danger in proceeding further.
"It is the moral sense which distinguishes civilized man from the brute; it is the regulator of the movements of the soul and the faithful indicator of the actions which depend on it."
We must really pity those who are deprived of moral sense for they are the prey of all the impulses created in them by the brute-nature, which sleeps in the depths of each human creature.
The man whose moral sense is developed will live at peace with himself, for he will only know the evil of doubt when he realizes the satisfaction of having conquered it.
Moral sense, like common sense, is formed by reasoning and is fostered by the practise of constant application.
It is the property of those who avoid evil, as others avoid the spatter of mud, through horror of the stains which result from it.
Those who do not have this apprehension flounder about, cover themselves with mud, sink in it and finally are swallowed up.
Yoritomo again takes up the defense of common sense, with reference to the arts.