John Dewey: “The democratic public is still largely inchoate and unorganized.”

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

In short, private acts may be socially valuable both by indirect consequences and by direct intention.

They persist as emotional cries rather than as reasoned ideas.