[What Is and What Might Be by Edmond Holmes]@TWC D-Link bookWhat Is and What Might Be CHAPTER V 22/43
In Utopia self-expression is the medium through which the expansive instincts are encouraged to unfold themselves.
And this life of self-expression has as its necessary counterpart the continuous development of the perceptive faculties along the whole range of the child's nature. Hence the all-round capacity of the Utopian child.
The development of his perceptive faculties which his life of self-expression tends to produce, takes many forms.
One of these, and one which in some sort underlies and interpenetrates all the rest, is the outgrowth of what I may call the _intuitional_ faculty,--a general capacity for getting into touch with any new environment in which the child may find himself, of subconsciously apprehending its laws and properties, of feeling his way through its unexplored land.
It is by means of this capacity for putting forth a new _sense_ in response to the stimulus of each new environment, that the Utopian child is able to master with comparative ease the various subjects which he is expected to learn.
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