§ 61

It is referred to by Village as well as City “Teachers.” It has become a kind of university, a source from which spring many small streams irrigating deserts that were unproductive. When started, the scheme was considered Utopian; a mere fad, and the men who framed its first principles were “Dreamers”—Poets, if you like, but unpractical. In a short time it became evident that far from being unpractical they were the reverse. They, seeing chaos, sought to achieve Kosmos. Success, hitherto gained, has been due to the touch created with an almost infinite variety of occupations and interests, which, while being local, are also national. They came at exactly the right moment, when a great upheaval threatened the very existence of England. By personal influence, direct and circumspect, they are doing for the country what the politician can never do, or statesman achieve, even if they are gifted with “Imagination.”