John Dewey: “Political democracy as it exists to-day calls for adverse criticism in abundance.”

In other words, every officer of the public, whether he represents it as a voter or as a stated official, has a dual capacity.

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.

If one wishes to realize the distance which may lie between “facts” and the meaning of facts, let one go to the field of social discussion.

The democratic public is still largely inchoate and unorganized.