John Dewey: “Compare, for example, the facts of politics with the theories which are extant regarding the nature of the state.”

Freedom presented itself as an end in itself, though it signified in fact liberation from oppression and tradition.

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

The invasion of the community by the new and relatively impersonal and mechanical modes of combined human behavior is the outstanding fact of modern life.

They persist as emotional cries rather than as reasoned ideas.