In many schools the energies of the child are systematically dammed back, till at last the springs of his activity, finding that no demand is made upon them, cease to flow.

In Utopia the sluices, though always regulated, are permanently lifted, and the energies of the child are ever moving, with a strong and steady current, in whatever channel they may have chanced to enter.

So strong, indeed, and so steady is the current that it maintains its movement long after the child has left school.

The employers of labour in the neighbourhood of Utopia will tell you that there are no slackers or loafers in the yearly output of the school.

Egeria recently received a visit from one of her ex-pupils, a girl of fourteen who is at home keeping house for her father, and who said to her in the course of their conversation: "I do just love washing days; I get up before six and start.