What they may do is to aid in creation of methods such that experimentation may go on less blindly, less at the mercy of accident, more intelligently, so that men may learn from their errors and profit by their successes.
Dewey advocates for methods that facilitate learning from political experimentation.
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Mistakes pile up and consolidate themselves into laws and methods of administration which are more harmful than the consequences which they were originally intended to control.
In this distinction we find the germ of the distinction between the private and the public.
Freedom presented itself as an end in itself, though it signified in fact liberation from oppression and tradition.
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