Of the truth of this statement I could, if necessary, give many proofs.

One must suffice.

The children, who are adepts at drawing with brush and pencil, wander in field and lane with sketch-books in their hands; and one of them at least was so moved by the beauty of a winter sunrise, as seen from his cottage window, that, in his own words, he felt he _must_ try to paint it, the result being a water-colour sketch which I have shown to a competent artist, who tells me that the _feeling_ in the sky is quite wonderful.
In this brief preliminary sketch of the more salient features of the Utopian school, I have, I hope, said enough to show that its scholars differ _toto coelo_ from those who attend that familiar type of school which I have recently described.

Yet the Utopian children are made of the same clay as the children of other villages.

If anything, indeed, the clay is heavier and more stubborn in Utopia than elsewhere.