I must acknowledge, however, that no book ever made me laugh more than the volume in question.
The great virtue of the men of the North, according to the "Havamal," was indeed the virtue which has given to the English race its present great position among nations,--the simplest of all virtues, common sense.

But common sense means much more than the words might imply to the Japanese students, or to any one unfamiliar with English idioms.

Common sense, or mother-wit, means natural intelligence, as opposed to, and independent of, cultivated or educated intelligence.

It means inherited knowledge; and inherited knowledge may take even the form of genius.

It means foresight.
It means intuitive knowledge of other people's character.