in which workers shall be follow-workers, and not rivals, and the principle of justice, not selfishness, shall regulate exchanges." A grand aim, but one that is at present, I fear, beyond our power to achieve. It is material progress which the workman first needs, and those who can give the simplest illustration of how to obtain it are his best friends, and will do the greatest service to co-operation.

The principal point is to make these co-operative societies succeed, and to take such steps as will lead to this result, and bring before the minds of the masses the value to their class of such societies. As to the future, we may safely trust co-operators who have full bellies, covered backs, and well-furnished houses, to cultivate higher aims, and, with their more ample means, they will be much better able to attain them. Mr. Neale, like the late F. D. Maurice, is anxious to reconstitute societies on the basis of co-operation as a great Christian and true social principle, and to banish out of these societies anything which opposes itself to these principles. Judging by the experience of all ages and classes, "selfishness" is the basis of society, and the law of the universe. But as we try to lessen pain, so ought we to try and diminish misery; and there can be no harm, but the contrary, in accepting "Cooperation," and using it as a practical protest against the assumption that " selfishness " is the law. In his tracts, in his many lectures, in all that he ever uttered on the question of co-operation, the late P. D. Maurice maintained "that all the great work that has been done by society in its existing form has been achieved by the mutual co-operation of men, and that it has