John Dewey: “The similes of the stone cast into the pool, ninepins in a row, the spark which kindles a vast conflagration, are pale…”

In short, private acts may be socially valuable both by indirect consequences and by direct intention.

There are those who speak as if ability to choose between two tickets were a high exercise of individual freedom.

They are made that way; it is “the nature of the beast.” We do not gain anything by inserting instincts to run, creep, swim and fly between the structure and the act.

But in this respect he does not differ from those explicitly designated public officials who have also been known to betray the interest committed to them instead of faithfully representing it.