John Dewey: “The conduct of these callings and others characteristic of our time are decided by science and pseudo-science.”

Nor can the liberating and confirming results of public action be construed to yield a wholesale idealization of states in contrast with other associations.

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.

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

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.