John Dewey: “The sailor, miner, fisherman and farmer think, but their thoughts fall within the framework of accustomed occupations…”

In other words, every officer of the public, whether he represents it as a voter or as a stated official, has a dual capacity.

Nothing better exhibits the scope of the movement than the fact that philosophic theories of knowledge made the same appeal to the self, or ego, in the form of personal consciousness identified with mind itself, that political theory made…

The idea remains barren and empty save as it is incarnated in human relationships.

Custom consolidates what accident may have originated; established power has a way of legitimizing itself.