The industrial régime which the authors of “natural” economy contemplated presupposed wants, tools, materials, purposes, techniques and abilities in a thousand ways dependent upon associated behavior.
Dewey discusses how the industrial system relies on various social and material factors.
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Is the public much more than what a cynical diplomat once called Italy: a geographical expression?
The local communities without intent or forecast found their affairs conditioned by remote and invisible organizations.
In this distinction we find the germ of the distinction between the private and the public.
For the older symbols of ideal life still engage thought and command loyalty.