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In describing what is common in human and other animal junctions and consolidations we fail to touch what is distinctively human in human associations.
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John Dewey
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Editor's note · Context
Dewey argues that while there are similarities in how humans and animals form groups, there are unique aspects of human associations that need to be acknowledged.
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The easiest way out was to go back to the naked individual, to sweep away all associations as foreign to his nature and rights save as they proceeded from his own voluntary choice, and guaranteed his own private ends.
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