574 INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTIONS. 



reached under the ordinary form of cooperative production, 

 it is inferable that permanent success might be reached were 

 one set of the difficulties removed; leaving only the diffi 

 culty of obtaining honest and skilful management. Not in 

 many cases, however, at present. The requisite &quot; sweet 

 reasonableness/ to use Matthew Arnold s phrase, is not yet 

 sufficiently prevalent. But s 1 ^h few cooperative bodies of the 

 kind described as survived, might be the germs of a spread 

 ing organization. Admission into them would be the goal 

 of working-class ambition. They would tend continually to 

 absorb the superior, leaving outside the inferior to work as 

 wage-earners; and the first would slowly grow at the ex 

 pense of the last. Obviously, too, the growth would become 

 increasingly rapid; since the master-and- workman type of in 

 dustrial organization could not withstand competition with 

 this cooperative type, so much more productive and costing 

 so much less in superintendence. 



