John Dewey: “To-day, so great and powerful is the sweep of the industrial current, the person of leisure is usually an idle person.”

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.

What is significant is that access to means of amusement has been rendered easy and cheap beyond anything known in the past.

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

Mistakes pile up and consolidate themselves into laws and methods of administration which are more harmful than the consequences which they were originally intended to control.