From the highest to the lowest, all are doing their best and all are happy together.
From morals to manners the transition is obvious and direct.

Be the explanation what it may, the whole atmosphere of this school is evidently fatal to selfishness and self-assertion; and in such an atmosphere good manners will spring up spontaneously among the children, and will scarcely need to be inculcated, for the essence of courtesy is forgetfulness of self and consideration of others in the smaller affairs of social life.

The general bearing of the Utopian children hits the happy mean between aggressive familiarity and uncouth shyness,--each a form of self-conscious egoism,--just as their bearing in school hits the happy mean between laxity and undue constraint.

They welcome the stranger as a friend, take his goodwill for granted, take him into their confidence, and show him, tactfully and unostentatiously, many pretty courtesies.

And they do all this, not because they have been drilled into doing it, but because it is their nature to do it, because their overflowing sympathy and goodwill must needs express themselves in and through the channels of courtesy and kindness.