Nor are Egeria's ex-pupils less efficient as labourers or domestic servants because they are interested in good literature, in Nature-study, in acting, or because they can still dance the Morris Dances and sing the Folk Songs which they learned in school.
FOOTNOTES: [20] I am thinking more particularly of some of the Roman Catholic schools in the Irish quarter of Liverpool, where the singularly kind and gracious bearing of the teaching "sisters" towards their poor, ill-fed, and ill-clad pupils is an educative influence of incalculable value.
[21] The sense of justice, which would give to each his due, and therefore not more than his due to oneself, seems to hold the balance between selfishness and love, being as it were, equidistant from the greed and self-indulgence of the former and the lavishness and self-devotion of the latter.

If this is so, and if the sense of duty is, as I have suggested, an offshoot from the sense of justice, one can understand why, on the one hand, the sense of duty should be needed to hold the self-seeking instincts in check, and why, on the other hand, it should be an altogether lower and weaker motive than love, by which indeed, _in its own interest_, it should always be ready to be superseded.
[22] I was once present when the Utopian children were going through a programme of Folk Songs and Morris Dances in the village hall.

A lady who was looking on remarked to me: "This is all very fine; but if this sort of thing goes on, where are we going to find our servants ?" The selfishness of this remark is obvious.

What is less obvious, but more significant, is its purblindness.

In point of fact the Utopian girls make excellent domestic servants, and are well content to "go into service." [23] Some two or three years ago it was seriously proposed that _marine navigation_ should be taught in all the elementary schools of a certain maritime county! [24] The parent who wrote to a schoolmaster, "Please do not teach my boy any more poetry, as he is going to be a grocer," must have been under the influence of this conception of usefulness..