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Is it possible to restore the reality of the lesser communal organizations and to penetrate and saturate their members with a sense of local community life?
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John Dewey
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gutenberg.orgJohn Dewey: “Is it possible to restore the reality of the lesser communal organizations and to penetrate and saturate their members…”
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Dewey wonders about the potential to revitalize smaller community organizations and their members' sense of belonging.
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But it indicates where the problem resides, whatever guise it assumes.
The democratic public is still largely inchoate and unorganized.
In other words, every officer of the public, whether he represents it as a voter or as a stated official, has a dual capacity.
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.