It has maintained sordid slums, flurried and discontented careers, grinding poverty and luxurious wealth, brutal exploitation of nature and man in times of peace and high explosives and noxious gases in times of war.
Dewey paints a grim picture of societal issues stemming from economic disparities and exploitation.
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It rules but it does not regulate; for its rule is confined to receipt of tribute and ceremonial deference.
The local communities without intent or forecast found their affairs conditioned by remote and invisible organizations.
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.
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.