"We must pity those who live for an illusion as well as those whose imagination has not known how to create an ideal, whose beauty illumines their efforts. "It is the triumph of common sense to accomplish this transformation and to banish empty reveries, replacing them by creating a desire for the best, which each one can satisfy--without destroying it. "The day when this purpose is accomplished, illusion, definitely conquered, will cease to haunt the mind of those whom common sense has illumined; vagaries will make place for reason and terrible disillusion will follow its chief (whose qualities never rise above mediocrity) into his retreat, and allow the flower of hope to blossom in the souls already filled with peace--that quality which is born of reason and common sense." LESSON III THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE REASONING POWER When reading certain passages in the manuscripts of Yoritomo, one is forcibly reminded of the familiar phrase: "Nothing is definitely finished among men, for each thing stops only to begin again." He says, "That many centuries before the great minds constructed altars to the goddess of Reason, they were in search of a divinity to replace the one they had just destroyed. "If it were proposed to me to build temples which would synthesize my devotion with certain sentiments, my desire would be that those dedicated to the Will and to Reason should dominate all others, for then they would be under the protection of powers for good." In a few pages further on he insists again and again upon the necessity of developing the worship of reason. "Reasoning," he continues, "is a divinity, around which gravitate a whole world of gods, important but inferior to it. "Among this people of these idols, so justly revered, there is one god which occupies a place apart from the others. "This god is Common Sense, which gave birth to Reason, and has always been its faithful companion. "It is, in reality, the controlling force exercising its power to guard reason against the predominating character and nefarious tendencies created by self-interest. "Common sense compels reason to admit principles whose justice it has already recognized, and, at the same time, incites reason to reject those whose absurdity it has demonstrated. "Common sense allies itself with reason, in order to make that selection of ideas which personal interest can either set aside entirely or modify by illogical inference. "Reason obeys certain laws, all of which can be united in one sentiment--common sense." This statement could be illustrated symbolically by comparing its truth to a fan, whose blades converge toward a central point where they remain fixt. Applying the precept to the picture, the old Shogun gives the design which we are faithfully copying. "In this ideal fan," explains Yoritomo, "not only the true reproduction of the qualities directing the progress of knowledge must be perceived, but the symbol of their development must be traced.