There is continuous cross-fertilization between astronomy, physics, chemistry and the biological sciences.
John Dewey
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John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Anthropology, history, sociology, morals, economics, political science, go their own ways without constant and systematized fruitful interaction.
The backwardness of social knowledge is marked in its division into independent and insulated branches of learning.
There is a social pathology which works powerfully against effective inquiry into social institutions and conditions.
If “holy” means that which is not to be approached nor touched, save with ceremonial precautions and by specially anointed officials, then such things are holy in contemporary political life.
The words “sacred” and “sanctity” come readily to our lips when such things come under discussion.
One of its commonest forms is a truly religious idealization of, and reverence for, established institutions; for example in our own politics, the Constitution, the Supreme Court, private property, free contract and so on.
The fear is the more efficacious because like all deep-lying fears it is covered up and disguised by all kinds of rationalizations.
Emotional habituations and intellectual habitudes on the part of the mass of men create the conditions of which the exploiters of sentiment and opinion only take advantage.
But the more serious enemy is deeply concealed in hidden entrenchments.
We seem to be approaching a state of government by hired promoters of opinion called publicity agents.
They have developed an extraordinary facility in enlisting upon their side the inertia, prejudices and emotional partisanship of the masses by use of a technique which impedes free inquiry and expression.