When the child or the man is growing as a living whole, with a happy, harmonious, many-sided growth, his growth is of necessity outgrowth, and he must needs be escaping from the thraldom of his lower and lesser self.
This conclusion is no mere inference from accepted or postulated premises.

What I have seen in Utopia has forced it upon me.

The unselfishness, the natural, easy, spontaneous self-forgetfulness, of the Utopian child, is the central feature of his moral life,--so marked and withal so unique a feature that its presence proves to demonstration, first, that growth of the right sort is necessarily emancipative, and, next, that the growth made in Utopia is growth of the right sort.

I have already commented on the singular charm of manner which distinguishes the children of Utopia.

Their self-forgetfulness, their entire lack of self-consciousness, is one source of this charm.