John Dewey: “Politics is not a branch of morals; it is submerged in morals.”

The local communities without intent or forecast found their affairs conditioned by remote and invisible organizations.

They persist as emotional cries rather than as reasoned ideas.

Is the public much more than what a cynical diplomat once called Italy: a geographical expression?

They are reflections into the singular human being of customs and institutions; they are not natural, that is, “native,” organic propensities.