There is just now as wide a divorce between poetry and the commonsense of all time, as there is between poetry and modern knowledge.

There is a genial ring of commonsense about such lines as, 'For his aunt Jobiska said "Every one knows That a Pobble is better without his toes,"' which is beyond the reach of Carroll.

At this time, looking over the events of the thirty years which have lapsed since the end of that unhappy affair, I can see more clearly the matter as a whole, and that the miseries of Crete especially, and of the Greeks in the Levant in general, have been mainly due to the want of commonsense in the race, and the incapacity of individuals to subordinate their personal views and interests to the general good.

"I finished preaching this little sermon on commonsense versus hysteria as we put out the lights and left the billiard room.