John Dewey: “Appeal to a gregarious instinct to account for social arrangements is the outstanding example of the lazy fallacy.”

The invasion of the community by the new and relatively impersonal and mechanical modes of combined human behavior is the outstanding fact of modern life.

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.

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

There was no logic which rendered necessary the appeal to the individual as an independent and isolated being.