John Dewey: “Extensive, enduring, intricate and serious indirect consequences of the conjoint activity of a comparatively few persons…”

The democratic public is still largely inchoate and unorganized.

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

There are those who speak as if ability to choose between two tickets were a high exercise of individual freedom.

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…