But Egeria has convinced me that under favourable conditions the _average_ child can become the rare exception, and attain to what is usually regarded as a remarkably high degree of mental and spiritual development.

Innocent joy, self-forgetfulness, communal devotion, heartfelt goodwill, gracious manners--to speak of spiritual development only--are characteristics of _every_ Utopian child.

What are we to infer from this?
The bullace ideal is realisable (under favourable conditions) by each individual bullace tree,--but the plum ideal is not.

The English rustic ideal is realisable by each individual rustic child.

_But so is the human ideal in Utopia._ But what of the children who do not belong to Utopia?
What would have happened to the Utopian children if there had been no Egeria to lead them into the path of self-realisation?
They would have lived and died ordinary English rustics,--healthy bullaces, but in no respect or degree plums.