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and most varied way, of the co-op> 

 ment. What the individual will never do of 

 himself he will often do eagerly and successfully 

 as a unit in an organization, where the aim 

 be sought by all are defined by a few exceptional 

 minds, which, it is possible, may sweep the whole 

 body along with them in the current of tl 

 energy and will. An organized body must move 

 as a mass or fall to pieces. Hence the peculiar 

 social and economic value of co-operation, par- 

 ticularly in countries where the traditions of in- 

 dustrial enterprise are not strongly established. 

 The Wyndham Land Act, therefore, cannot in 

 any real sense be regarded as a settlement of 

 the Irish agrarian problem. But if it removes 

 that problem, at least as regards a great part 

 of the island, from the sphere of politics and 

 places it in that of voluntary social effort, it will 

 have accomplished a great task and opened the 

 way to a new era. 



Such is the conclusion which Dr. Bonn 

 drawn from his study of this country. It amply 

 confirms the views which have been long ent 

 tained and put into practice by the pioneers of 

 reform in Ireland. But the extension of tl 

 practical work is a matter of imminent conc< 

 to the country, for the forces of new life have 



