John Dewey: “They foresaw the new society falling apart, dissolving into mutually repellent animated grains of sand.”

Freedom presented itself as an end in itself, though it signified in fact liberation from oppression and tradition.

But this conclusion is an obvious invitation to trial of forces to see where superior force lies.

In this distinction we find the germ of the distinction between the private and the public.

Personal loyalties to elders take the place of political obedience.