John Dewey: “The newer forces have created mobile and fluctuating associational forms.”

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.

They are made that way; it is “the nature of the beast.” We do not gain anything by inserting instincts to run, creep, swim and fly between the structure and the act.

The local communities without intent or forecast found their affairs conditioned by remote and invisible organizations.

Custom consolidates what accident may have originated; established power has a way of legitimizing itself.