It is true that if these changes are to be useful, they must be gradual.

The policy of the "clean sweep" is one which both history and psychology condemn.

But it does seem to me a good thing to envisage clearly, if we can, the ideal towards which our changes should lead.

A garden city is not Utopia.

Still, it is an advance upon the Victorian type of suburb and slum; and we should not have got it if some men had not believed in Utopia, and tried to make a beginning here and now.
Already in education some few have tried to make such a beginning and have proved that it is possible if we believe in it enough: for faith can move even that mountainous thing, the British parental mind.
Our task--and I believe our most real hope for the future--is, as we have already allowed, to make the idea of God dominant for the plastic youthful consciousness: and not only this, but to harmonize that conception, first with our teachings about the physical and mental sides of life, and next with the child's own social activities, training body, mind and spirit together that they may take each their part in the development of a whole man, fully responsive to a universe which is at bottom a spiritual fact.