Our concern at this time is to state how it is that the machine age in developing the Great Society has invaded and partially disintegrated the small communities of former times without generating a Great Community.
Dewey discusses the impact of the machine age on small communities and the lack of a cohesive Great Community.
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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.
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.
In other words, every officer of the public, whether he represents it as a voter or as a stated official, has a dual capacity.
There was no logic which rendered necessary the appeal to the individual as an independent and isolated being.