On the record
In other words, we shall endeavor to frame a hypothesis regarding the democratic state to stand in contrast with the earlier doctrine which has been nullified by the course of events.
Said by
John Dewey
Source
gutenberg.orgJohn Dewey: “In other words, we shall endeavor to frame a hypothesis regarding the democratic state to stand in contrast with the…”
Editor's note · Context
Dewey aims to contrast a new hypothesis about the democratic state with outdated doctrines.
Share
More from John Dewey
Vision is a spectator; hearing is a participator.
So to the patent objection that the state is a very modern institution, it is replied that while modernity is a property of those structures which go by the name of states, yet all history, or almost all, records the exercise of analogous…
If the technological age can provide mankind with a firm and general basis of material security, it will be absorbed in a humane age.
Systematic and continuous inquiry into all the conditions which affect association and their dissemination in print is a precondition of the creation of a true public.