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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 November 2014
If I may be pardoned for beginning this paper on a personal note, I should like to say that anything I write must be regarded as coming from one who has, for thirty years and more, followed the co-operative movement in both England and Canada with a deep and sympathetic interest. I am a convinced and enthusiastic believer both in the theory and practice of co-operation; in it I see everything that is good and useful to the individual and to society, and nothing that is harmful. I have no serious criticism to offer of the movement, only unqualified commendation. Such is my confession of faith in co-operation.
I am afraid I am likely to disappoint a good many who hope to learn something about co-operation and its future, because to tell the honest truth that is exactly my own case. I want to hear about its future myself; I want to hear what others, better qualified than myself, have to say. My paper will therefore be in the form of a series of questions to which I so far have found no definite answers; questions which I feel very strongly ought to be answered, if they are capable of it, of which I am a trifle dubious.
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6 I became interested in these motives for organization during the beginnings of the movement in the United States and Canada. At that time I obtained by correspondence with leaders of the movement personal statements of motives. I also have original campaign literature and the speeches of Sapiro and others which support the brief statement of motives outlined in this article.