Let me assure you that such cases as these, far from being miracles and prodigies, are perfectly normal when once the principle is understood, as we of Yaque understand it.

It is the average intelligence among your people which is abnormal, inasmuch as it is unable to perform these functions which it was so clearly intended to exercise." "Do you mean," asked St.George, "that we need not learn--as we understand 'learn' ?" "Precisely," said the prince simply.

"You are accustomed, I was told in New York, to say that there is 'no royal road to learning.' On the contrary, I say to you that the possibilities of these children are in every one.

But to my intense surprise I find that we of Yaque are the only ones in the world who understand how to use these possibilities.

Our system of education consists simply in mastering this principle.