John Dewey: “We are mostly satisfied with the result of cosmetics and with ugly slums, and oftentimes with equally ugly palaces.”

Is the public much more than what a cynical diplomat once called Italy: a geographical expression?

In this distinction we find the germ of the distinction between the private and the public.

They persist as emotional cries rather than as reasoned ideas.

There is therefore no necessary connection between the private character of an act and its non-social or anti-social character.