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Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1928, Page 3

WHAT IS COMMON SENSE’2 “ Common Sense is like common law: that sense ’ whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary, it lias its basis in custom, in the faith of tradition, and the good judgment of the eenmioii people. It holds no implication of ignorance, hut rattier or breadth of view, unprejudiced by too much feeling. It is the instinctive judgment of the few who have more than the average intelligence, its intrinsic worth lies in both its origin and its application to the allairs of men—-without both ol which it would lie valueless. Common Sense is that mental poise or balance which enables us to view a fact or a situation in .- practical way. cleared of the logs ol theory, sentiment, or emotion. Imagination may lilt our heads to the cloiuL. but ( onimon Sense keeps our ieet firmly on the ground. Common Sense —that all-desirable ability to detect values, to know the big things from the little ones.' Common Sense—a heterogenerous mass ot borrowed opinions applied at haphazard in framing a conclusion by a mental .Tack-of-all-trades. who scorns the ordered structure built hv toiling intelligence from tin- materials of patient research." •• The Forum.”