And when authority has thus been presented to him, in a form which he has never been expected to welcome, and when, by the same process, the growth of his higher self has been arrested, and his anarchical instincts--his selfishness and self-assertion--have been systematically cultivated, the critical spirit and temper will be deliberately aroused in him, especially if he happens to attend one of those secondary schools which are regarded as highly efficient because their lists of University distinctions and other "successes" are inordinately long; for the education given to him in such a school by his scholarship-hunting teachers is of necessity so bookish and so one-sided that his intellectual, dialectically critical faculties are apt to become hypertrophied, while other faculties which might have kept these in check are neglected and starved.

The product of such a system of education,--benumbed or paralysed on many sides of his being by the repressive _regime_ to which he has so long been subjected, but vigorously alive on the sides of egoism and intellectual criticism,--will be an anarchist _in posse_ (unless, indeed, his vitality has been depressed by his school-life below the point at which reaction becomes possible);--an anarchist _in posse_, even though, in his terror of anarchism in others, he should become a pillar of the Established Church of his country, a J.P.of his town or county, and an active member of the nearest Conservative Association.
In Utopia, on the other hand, where selfishness is outgrown and forgotten, and where the spirit of comradeship and brotherhood pervades the school, there can be no preparation for anarchy, if only for the reason that there is no authority--no despotic authority, forcibly imposing its will on the school _ab extra_--to be potentially dethroned.

For all her scholars, Egeria is the very symbol and embodiment of love, the centre whence all happy, harmonious, life-giving, peace-diffusing influences radiate, and to which, when they have vitalised the souls of the children and transformed themselves into sentiments of loyalty and devotion, they all return.

I am not exaggerating a whit when I say that the Utopian school is an ideal community, a community whose social system, instead of being inspired by that spirit of "competitive selfishness" which makes "each for himself, and the devil take the hindmost" its motto, seems to have realised the Socialistic dream of "Each for all, and all for each." I shall perhaps be asked _what provision is made in Utopia for enabling the children to go through the drudgery of school-life, to master the "3 R's," to "get up" the various subjects which the Code prescribes, and so forth_.

To this question there is but one answer: the best possible provision.