John Dewey: “For it blurs recognition of our central need to possess conceptions which are used as tools of directed inquiry and…”

Nor can the liberating and confirming results of public action be construed to yield a wholesale idealization of states in contrast with other associations.

There is therefore no necessary connection between the private character of an act and its non-social or anti-social character.

But in this respect he does not differ from those explicitly designated public officials who have also been known to betray the interest committed to them instead of faithfully representing it.

If one wishes to realize the distance which may lie between “facts” and the meaning of facts, let one go to the field of social discussion.