[What Is and What Might Be by Edmond Holmes]@TWC D-Link bookWhat Is and What Might Be CHAPTER VI 22/89
The exigencies of the daily round of life are such as to make that impossible, in all but the most exceptional cases.
But that is all the more reason why the expansive instincts should be carefully and skilfully trained in school.
For where they are so trained, an impetus is given to each of them which will keep it alive and active long after the direct influence of the school has ceased, and will enable it to absorb and assimilate whatever nutriment may come in its way.
If the Utopian training cannot be followed up, in its entirety, in the child's after-life, it can at least initiate a movement which need never be arrested,--a movement in the direction of the triune goal of Man's being, the goal towards which his expansive instincts are ever tending to take him, the goal of Love, Beauty, and Truth. The life of many-sided growth is also a life of self-expression.
This means that the self-expression, like the growth which it fosters, is many-sided; and this again means that the perceptive faculties, which unfold themselves through the medium of self-expression, are not so much separate faculties as a general capacity for getting on terms with one's environment and gaining an insight into its laws and properties.
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