John Dewey: “In the long run, few questions exceed it in importance.”

They persist as emotional cries rather than as reasoned ideas.

Nothing better exhibits the scope of the movement than the fact that philosophic theories of knowledge made the same appeal to the self, or ego, in the form of personal consciousness identified with mind itself, that political theory made…

Nor can the liberating and confirming results of public action be construed to yield a wholesale idealization of states in contrast with other associations.

There are even those who hold that the presumption is always that social loss will result from agents of the public doing anything which could be done by persons in their private capacity.