For, as far as they are justified--and no candid believer can deny that many of them are only too well grounded--they arouse him to bestir himself in order that the idea may find a more adequate machinery through which to work.
Dewey acknowledges that valid criticisms can motivate believers to improve democratic systems.
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For the older symbols of ideal life still engage thought and command loyalty.
The clear consciousness of a communal life, in all its implications, constitutes the idea of democracy.
Custom consolidates what accident may have originated; established power has a way of legitimizing itself.
For the very familiarity with the phenomena conceals their significance and blinds us to their relation to immediate political problems.