John Dewey: “Wrongdoing is culpable because it reflects upon one’s ancestry and kin.”

The idea remains barren and empty save as it is incarnated in human relationships.

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

That the state should be to some a deity and to others a devil is another evidence of the defects of the premises from which discussion sets out.

The clear consciousness of a communal life, in all its implications, constitutes the idea of democracy.