John Dewey: “The local is the ultimate universal, and as near an absolute as exists.”

For the older symbols of ideal life still engage thought and command loyalty.

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

There was no logic which rendered necessary the appeal to the individual as an independent and isolated being.

Nothing better exhibits the scope of the movement than the fact that philosophic theories of knowledge made the same appeal to the self, or ego, in the form of personal consciousness identified with mind itself, that political theory made…