John Dewey: “Subsequent history has proved that the assumption involved illusion.”

But this conclusion is an obvious invitation to trial of forces to see where superior force lies.

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.

That the state should be to some a deity and to others a devil is another evidence of the defects of the premises from which discussion sets out.

The clear consciousness of a communal life, in all its implications, constitutes the idea of democracy.