If we do not ask what are the conditions which promote and obstruct the organization of the public into a social group with definite functions, we shall never grasp the problem involved in the development and transformation of states.
Dewey stresses the importance of examining conditions that affect the organization of the public for grasping state development.
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They persist as emotional cries rather than as reasoned ideas.
Personal loyalties to elders take the place of political obedience.
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.
In no two ages or places is there the same public.