It is in the struggle to express what he perceives that the Utopian child has gradually strengthened and deepened his perceptive powers, till his sight has transformed itself into insight, and form and colour have come to be interpreted by him through the medium of the beauty which is behind them,--his feeling of beauty having, little by little, been awakened and evolved by his unceasing efforts to interpret the _vraie verite_ of form and colour, which, as he now begins to learn, are beauty's outward self.
(4) _The Musical Instinct_.
In the development of the artistic sense the path of imitation is followed until it leads at last to heights which it cannot scale.

The development of the musical sense takes from the first a widely different path.

Nature has a beautiful music of her own, but the child seldom attempts to imitate this.

Music belongs to the soul even more than to the outward world.

So at least one feels disposed to think.