ABSTRACT
In directing the educational efforts of the co-operative movement, the Co-operative Union exercises considerable influence, and the establishment of two scholarships at Oxford is an interesting sign of the times. The scholarships are memorials to Edward Vansittart Neale, late General Secretary of the Union, and the man to whom, Robert Owen apart, co-operators owe more, perhaps, than to any other single individual. Co-operation must, therefore, be recognized as part of a life that is far greater than itself, the great scheme that was never planned, but which grows by a manifold energy, of bankers, manufacturers, merchants, dealers, carriers of every kind, operatives, and labourers, the business life of the nation. Although, therefore, co-operation is but a part of the Gospel of Industry, those among its missionaries will be the most powerful who cling, in spite of every temptation that the lower success of the movement may seem to offer, to the noblest traditions of the spiritual fathers of the movement.
