John Dewey: “Is it possible for local communities to be stable without being static, progressive without being merely mobile?”

They are reflections into the singular human being of customs and institutions; they are not natural, that is, “native,” organic propensities.

There are those who speak as if ability to choose between two tickets were a high exercise of individual freedom.

But this conclusion is an obvious invitation to trial of forces to see where superior force lies.

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.