The Co-operator.

Critics fear cooperatives stifle individuality. The answer to the odd pairing between individualism and cooperation may be hiding in plain sight

Labor is the foundation and cornerstone of any structure, the crucial element that holds everything together, like the root of a tree or the heart of a body.

But this friendly feeling, among the members generally, must not be left to chance and accident. It must not only be recommended as an advantage; it must be enforced as an imperative and paramount duty and obligation.

In the Society, he has insured himself against all these things: he cannot be ruined unless the Society be so too: and the ruin of a Society of labourers is an impossibility.

Co-operation removes the almost insurmountable obstacles to friendship, namely—self-interest, rivalry, jealousy, and envy.

A family is the place where we are to look for the purest and happiest feelings which man is permitted to enjoy upon earth. A family is a community as far as it goes.