But the machine age has so enormously expanded, multiplied, intensified and complicated the scope of the indirect consequences, have formed such immense and consolidated unions in action, on an impersonal rather than a community basis, that the resultant public cannot identify and distinguish itself.
Dewey discusses the complexities of modern society that hinder the public's ability to identify itself.
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They persist as emotional cries rather than as reasoned ideas.
There is therefore no necessary connection between the private character of an act and its non-social or anti-social character.
The democratic public is still largely inchoate and unorganized.
They are reflections into the singular human being of customs and institutions; they are not natural, that is, “native,” organic propensities.