John Dewey: “Conditions have changed, but every aspect of life, from religion and education to property and trade, shows that nothing…”

The clear consciousness of a communal life, in all its implications, constitutes the idea of democracy.

The local communities without intent or forecast found their affairs conditioned by remote and invisible organizations.

Custom consolidates what accident may have originated; established power has a way of legitimizing itself.

Freedom presented itself as an end in itself, though it signified in fact liberation from oppression and tradition.