They are giving them a living interest in the various subjects that are dramatised; and, by teaching them to identify themselves, if only for a moment, with other human beings, they are leading them into the path of tolerance, of compassion, of charity, of sympathy,--the ever-widening path which makes at last for Nirvanic oneness with the One Life.[17] (3) _The Artistic Instinct_.
The desire to reproduce with pencil, paint, or clay the form and colour of the outward world will, if duly cultivated, gradually transform itself into the desire to feel, to understand, to interpret, to express, not the form and colour only of the outward world, but also that less palpable but more spiritual quality which we call beauty.

But in order that this transformation may take place, the child must always endeavour to reproduce with due fidelity the more palpable qualities of colour and form.

In this endeavour he must bring many faculties into play.

He must observe closely and attentively.

He must reflect on what he observes.