John Dewey: “Thomas, Shakespeare, Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Boyle, Locke, Rousseau and countless others, and then to ask ourselves…”

But it indicates where the problem resides, whatever guise it assumes.

What is significant is that access to means of amusement has been rendered easy and cheap beyond anything known in the past.

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

The easiest way out was to go back to the naked individual, to sweep away all associations as foreign to his nature and rights save as they proceeded from his own voluntary choice, and guaranteed his own private ends.