Country Life
THE SOUL OF A PEOPLE.
" The Soul of A People " was the name given to the spirit of the thing for which the only available word is Co-operation, a rather clumsy compound that has perhaps hindered a move- ment which is most essential to the good of a country. It has dawdled into England to the great loss of rural life. Its absence is, indeed, the chief reason for the flight from the land, and the utter surrender of more intensive methods of cultivation. For co-operation is a mental and moral force ; not only a means of buying and selling to greater advantage. Our literature has an apostle, with a very cheerful name, for self-help, but too few people have realized that mutual help is a greater theme, and that Sir Horace Plunkett is a much greater man than was
Mr. Smiles. * *
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