John Dewey: “They relieve the mind from thought of means, thus freeing thought to deal with new conditions and purposes.”

The easiest way out was to go back to the naked individual, to sweep away all associations as foreign to his nature and rights save as they proceeded from his own voluntary choice, and guaranteed his own private ends.

They persist as emotional cries rather than as reasoned ideas.

They are made that way; it is “the nature of the beast.” We do not gain anything by inserting instincts to run, creep, swim and fly between the structure and the act.

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