We could if we chose take many hints from it, as regards the disciplining of the attention, the correct use of suggestion, the teaching of meditation, the sublimation and direction to an assigned end of the natural impulse to reverie; above all, the education of the moral life.

For character-building as understood by these old specialists was the most practical of arts.
Further, in all this teaching, those inward activities and responses to which we can give generally the name of prayer, and those outward activities and deeds of service to which we can give the name of work, ought to be trained together and never dissociated.

They are the complementary and balanced expressions of one spirit of life: and must be given together, under appropriately simple forms.

Concrete application of the child's energies, aptitudes and ideals must from the first run side by side with the teaching of principle.

Young people therefore should constantly be encouraged to face as practical and interesting facts, not as formulae, those reactions to eternal and this-world reality which used to be called our duty to God and our neighbour; and do concrete things proper to a real citizen of a really theocratic world.