John Dewey: “The most influential form of the divorce is separation between pure and applied science.”

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

Nor can the liberating and confirming results of public action be construed to yield a wholesale idealization of states in contrast with other associations.

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.

It rules but it does not regulate; for its rule is confined to receipt of tribute and ceremonial deference.