ABSTRACT
I come now to the less pleasant part of these Reminiscences. It could not have been told in Mr. Maurice's lifetime, and scarcely in that of Vansittart Neale. I have lived to see that neither of them was really to blame, and that it was altogether for the best that things happened when they did. I have to trace the causes which led to the abandonment of organised effort on Christian principles directly to promote co-operative production, and to the concentration of such effort on the work of education only, whatever individual promoters might continue to do in the sphere of co-operation. Very various influences combined to produce this result, and it is not altogether easy to disentangle them.
