John Dewey: “The new age of human relationships” has no political agencies worthy of it.”

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.

Personal loyalties to elders take the place of political obedience.

But in this respect he does not differ from those explicitly designated public officials who have also been known to betray the interest committed to them instead of faithfully representing it.

That the state should be to some a deity and to others a devil is another evidence of the defects of the premises from which discussion sets out.