But if it means that the average mental capacity of the children of our "lower orders" is hopelessly inferior to that of the children of our middle and upper classes, I can say without hesitation that it is a slander and a lie.

Whether there is any difference, in respect of innate mental capacity, between level and level of our social scale, may be doubted; but the Utopian experiment has proved to demonstration that in the lowest level of all the innate mental capacity is so great that we cannot well expect to find any considerable advance on it even in the highest level of all.
But where, it will be asked, are we to find Egerias to man our elementary schools?
For the moment this problem does not admit of a practical solution.

But that need not discourage us.

I admit that in far too many of our schools the teachers, through no fault of their own, are what I may call machine-made, and that they are engaged in turning out machine-made scholars, some of whom in the fullness of time will develop into machine-made teachers.

But there is a way of escape from this vicious circle,--the path of self-realisation.
That path has transformed the children of a rustic village in a slow-witted county into Utopians.