I have spoken of the Utopian child's love of the beautiful.

This is one aspect of the spiritual growth that he is always making.

Other aspects of it are his strong sympathy with life in all its forms, and a certain large and free way of looking at things, which, as far as my experience of school children goes, is all his own.
There is yet another aspect of his spiritual growth which is perhaps the most vital and the most typical of all.

When we say that the child is growing both laterally and vertically (like a shapely tree), we mean that he is growing as a whole, as a living soul.

Now the growth of the soul as such must needs take the form of outgrowth, of escape from "self." Growth is, in its essence, an emancipative process; and though it sometimes intensifies selfishness and widens the sphere of its activity, that is invariably due to its being one-sided and therefore inharmonious and unhealthy.