John Dewey: “Moreover, interference with a well-established habit is followed by uneasiness and antipathy.”

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

What he believes, hopes for and aims at is the outcome of association and intercourse.

For the very familiarity with the phenomena conceals their significance and blinds us to their relation to immediate political problems.

In this distinction we find the germ of the distinction between the private and the public.