"It would be puerile to attach vital importance to them, but one would surely regret having entirely scorned their counsel.
"Too much erudition is at times detrimental to reason, based on common sense. Altho fully appreciating science, and devoting serious study to it, one would do well to introduce the human element into his knowledge.
"There are some essential truths which modify daily life without, for this reason, lessening their importance.
"Some of them are of premature development; others are of miniature growth.
"To reason without offending common sense, it is, therefore, indispensable to consider time, place, environment, and all the contingencies which could arise to undermine the importance of reasoning."
After having reviewed all these phases, we shall then extend, in accord with Yoritomo, the last blade of this rudimentary fan, and we shall find judgment.
"This one is the index to that quality of mind called conviction.
"This mental operation consists in drawing together many ideas that their relative characteristics may be determined.
"This operation takes the place contiguous to reasoning, of which it is the result.
"Judgment determines its character after having registered the reasons which ought to indicate its position; it deducts the conclusions imposed by the explanatory principle, and classifies the idea by submitting it to the valuation placed upon it by judgment.