Common sense, how to exercise it

by Yoritomo-Tashi

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.

Only a few of them reached the center of the crowded bunches of the grain stalks and of the trailing vines that interlaced the tiny bands which held them against the wall.